Word: doled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower slapped hard on the Cabinet table in front of him, snapped Republican congressional leaders out of their early-morning reverie. "It's a dole," said the President of the U.S. "I'm not going to stand for it." Ike was angered by the attempts of congressional Democrats to turn his unemployment-compensation bill into a loosely drawn federal handout to the states. And last week's humiliating defeat of the Democratic bill in the House of Representatives (see The Congress) was impressive evidence that Dwight Eisenhower-looking better and feeling better, more willing to fight...
...Wilbur." What Arends and his G.O.P. colleagues had done was indeed worth a handshake. With a remarkable rebuke to Ways & Means Chairman Mills, the House, after two days of strenuous debate, voted down a $1.5 billion Democratic proposal for extending unemployment compensation benefits that President Eisenhower had called "a dole." Passed instead, with minor revisions, was the moderate $587 million bill originally proposed by the Eisenhower Administration as a temporary measure...
Committee Republicans were aghast. Wisconsin's John Byrnes, with considerable accuracy, called the program a "new dole" which "goes far beyond the wildest dreams of the New Deal and Fair Deal." New York's old Dan Reed grunted that it was "panicky political irresponsibility." But on a key vote-whether to include the additional 900,000 unemployed-the Republicans lost to the committee majority, 14-7. In losing, however, they had solace. If the bill's final draft clears the Ways and Means Committee on schedule this week, it will face heavy opposition on the House floor...
...readjustment: "I lived in a third-floor apartment-and now look," exclaimed a clerk from Budapest, thrusting out hands blistered by operating a pneumatic drill with a road-building crew. But now newcomers are guaranteed 250 days' work at regular wages instead of the old immigrant's dole, and promised their own individual plots to cultivate as soon as they reclaim enough land. And to get them further used to what life in Israel is like, police units taught them how to guard against Arab infiltrators, who have long been a security worry along this hitherto unsettled portion...
...islands' politicians, was pushed through by London's Colonial Office. Since the sugar-prosperous 18th century, when the West Indies were Britain's prize possessions, colonialism has gone out of style, and the islands have turned into economic liabilities, many of them now on a steady dole. But because tiny islands could not hope to become individual countries, independence automatically implied federation. The constitution was eleven years in the making. As finally approved last year, it still left the new legislature with two major tasks...