Word: defeated
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...door committee sessions under Wilbur Mills, longtime reciprocal-trade advocate, whose hopes to be Sam Rayburn's successor as Democratic House Speaker might well be at stake in the success or failure of the trade bill. At one point Mills was so discouraged that he predicted total House defeat for reciprocal trade, urged the Administration to take responsibility for watering down its own program (TIME, May 19). When the Administration stood firm, Mills went back to work. The gizmo that finally won the Ways & Means Committee's informal approval was a thing of doubtful value and doubtful parentage...
...speech, when House Speaker Sam Rayburn summoned Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to Capitol Hill. Also present at the closed-door meeting were House Republican Leader Joe Martin and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. Rayburn's grim warning to Weeks: the foreign trade bill faces total defeat in the House unless the Administration backs away from its insistence on a five-year extension and increased presidential tariff-cutting authority...
Behind Rayburn's warning also lay a political ploy, aimed at shifting the responsibility for diluting the reciprocal trade bill from the Democratic Congress to the Republican Administration. Rayburn's friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also...
...leeway" referendum to allow the school board to add 5 mills to property taxes, lost badly after a campaign that degenerated into a dogfight between pressure groups, with teachers opposing the Chamber of Commerce and citizens' committees. Observers felt that the recession weighed only lightly in the defeat. Out of several such leeway referendums in Utah this year, only one has succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study on merit pay has poked along for four...
...game was a decided letdown from the varsity's top performance of the season against Williams last week, but injuries again were a major factor in the defeat. Dick MacKinnon guarded the nets gamely, in spite of a shoulder separation suffered in practice Thursday, but on at least four goals he just couldn't raise his stick fast enough to block the shot...