Word: enact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedys and in-laws (including Jackie's pretty sister, Princess Radziwill). The special three-week session of Congress, said Jack, would absorb all of his and L.B.J.'s time and attention until Labor Day; despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower vetoed or the Republicans closed ranks in opposition, that would stoke up the campaign too. Said Jack Kennedy: "The American people will be quick to spot...
...half-safe at that-the Democrats in Congress tried to save the nation by adding two new states, buying medical research, and bringing in a civil rights bill. "If only there had been a Democrat in the White House," said Church, "there would have been plenty of money to enact housing, unemployment, school construction and other such bills without deficit spending and new taxes...
...surging forward in the house of labor and all areas of American life." To begin, Randolph will bear down with the "leverage of pressure" on both political parties. At the national conventions, he promises, Negro unionists and churchmen will lead "massive protest demonstrations . . . against both parties' failure to enact meaningful civil rights legislation." While Randolph was disowning all the candidates, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins made a bow to Richard Nixon. The Vice President, said Wilkins, has a "good record on civil rights." As for the Democratic presidential contenders...
...glad to do it," says Rayburn. "But a lot of folks don't have the money and can't do it." Rayburn, who rarely recounts personal stories unless they make a political point, was circulating that one last week-along with his word that Congress had better enact some program for federal aid to the ailing aged before it goes home in July...
...Democrats wrested office from President Ismet Inonu's Republicans in 1950, they have gagged newspapers, jailed more than 200 journalists, and cuffed the opposition about with barbarous disregard for civil rights. Unlike Rhee. Menderes knows what his followers are doing, and in fact dictates the laws that they enact...