Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks the President had been urged by Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and House G.O.P. Leader Charlie Halleck to do what he had never done in the six and a half years of his administration : throw his great public prestige into a raging congressional fight-this time into a long, long fight for labor reform with teeth. Last April the Senate passed the mild and much-amended Kennedy-Ervin bill that requires unions to make annual financial accounting, bars convicts from high union jobs, respects rank-and-file rights, but makes no real move to clean up abuses of boycott...
...most farmers "prefer to drift along with things as they are," bad as they are. "I don't like farming for the Government," admitted a troubled Minnesota wheat farmer. "I know it's wrong. But it's not for me to figure out what should be done. I have four children to take care of. As long as the Government pays for it, I'll raise as much wheat as I can." The farmers, concluded Lubell, are "waiting for someone other than themselves to blow the whistle and say the party is over...
Biding Time. No man save De Gaulle himself had done more to change the course of postwar French history than Jacques Soustelle. The payoff was scarcely what Soustelle must have hoped for. "No one else has ever praised me for my role in Algiers," said he last week, "so I am obliged to praise myself...
...party," said its newspaper, "has done great deeds, but it has also made mistakes owing to the drunkenness of victory and the conceit resulting from its great achievements. It has wrongly assessed its own powers, exaggerated its own importance and given insufficient attention to the roles played by other national forces." Furthermore, the Communist paper itself has "dealt in an inflammatory manner with certain events." Just so everybody would understand its previous "wrong assessment," the Central Committee now assured everyone that "the party condemns all draggings, torture, pillage...
...sell Mexican parents on the scheme, broadcasting urgent appeals in Spanish on 38 radio stations. Good Citizen Tijerina will not say how much of his own money he has spent so far: "I'm just paying a little back from what the people of the community have done...