Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under the impact of these developments, liquidation of inventories should soon end; indeed the gap between current sales and stepped-up production schedules may already have been closed...
...long, talkative history of the U.S. Senate, only 22 attempts have been made to end filibusters by cloture, only four times (and not since 1927, on a filibuster against creation of a bureau of customs and bureau of prohibition) have the attempts been successful. But last week, for the first time, the Senate got what appeared to be a generally reasonable and workable anti-filibuster rule...
...Allow two-thirds of the Senators "present and voting" to end filibusters, as against the old requirement of two-thirds of the entire Senate membership...
...fight for his own version of Rule XXII that the final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...
...Poets' Theatre has gratified this expectation by presenting the world premiere of The Doctor and the Devils. In it Thomas takes on the problem of the existence in a comfortable and cultured city of the vilest depths of misery and degradation, and the question of whether a good end can justify any means. The first of these great issues is largely muffled in Dickensian-Hogarthian picturesqueness for the slums, and clumsy, over-literary, rhetorical prose for the cultured quarters. The second problem, once stated, is largely ignored...