Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bosses went too far, and such reformers as Wisconsin's Robert La Follette and Idaho's William Borah in 1911 forced the Senators to accept the 17th Amendment, providing for election of Senators by direct popular vote rather than state legislatures. The Senate was never the same again-nor was the presidency...
...real confirmation of senatorial rights came in the struggle with Franklin Roosevelt over his plan to pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority that would okay his New Deal measures. Despite Roosevelt's overwhelming popularity, despite his highly organized liaison with the congressional leadership, despite his direct radio appeals to the nation, the individualists of the Senate balked. In the 1938 primaries, Roosevelt appealed to voters to "purge" eight Senators who opposed him; all eight were defiantly re-elected by their constituents...
...stated that "the notion that the Chinese model of revolution is a kind of magic formula which will work everywhere in the `underdeveloped world' once certain buttons are pressed in Peking is a notion based on the same fear of the disbolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow...
...project, Heer is making a statistical analysis of the social factors which differentiate fertility of nations. He has approached the problem of the effects of economic development on fertility in a unique way. Although experts have always known that economic development means a lower birth-rate, Heer claims the direct result of economic development is an increase in fertility. An example is the large increase in the American birth rate in the prosperous post World War II period...
Peter Ivers designed the lighting which was exceptionally good. If he thought up the Keystone cops jail-break scene they should let him direct the next...