Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also in Congress last week: ¶ The Senate and House passed separate wheat bills, both opposed by the Eisenhower Administration. The Senate pegged price supports at 65% of parity for farmers who plant full allotments, 75% for a 10% acreage cut, 85% for a 20% cut. It also set $35...
Bureau, Department of Commerce, Council of Economic Advisers) considered unsound. But insofar as the decision was based on keeping his veto record intact, it was an irrelevancy-like a baseball player, worried more about his average than anything else, bunting to keep up a hitting streak.
Government: Tapped by President Eisenhower as Under Secretary of the Navy in 1953, Republican Gates was promoted to Secretary when Charles Thomas resigned in 1957. Known as a black-shoe, sea-blue navyman at home either behind a desk or on a deck, he helped guide the Navy through its...
Impossibly Difficult. Studying the mass of uninformative testimony, Justice and Treasury Department officials came up with the idea of hooking the most recalcitrant members on an unusual charge: conspiracy to obstruct justice (possible sentence: five years' imprisonment and/or $5,000 fine each) on the basis of their concerted refusal...
"The system of land tenure that dominates Latin America," said a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture study, "has not resulted in a satisfactory adjustment between population and land resources." Pressure has been growing against the latifundios ever since Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata raised his famous war cry of "land and...