Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which would 1) establish a six-man bipartisan commission on civil rights to serve for two years, then file recommendations; 2) create a civil-rights division in the Department of Justice, headed by a new Assistant Attorney General; 3) permit civil suits to be filed in federal courts against violators of civil-rights guarantees; 4) authorize the Federal Government to take legal action-even in the absence of a complaint-to guarantee voting privileges...
This is not the first such report. In Hyderabad an investigating group complained of "a deep-rooted conspiracy to establish a Christian kingdom in India." In Indore a commission found missionary work "a smokescreen for the conversion of only poor and backward people," called for tougher regulation of missionaries' activities...
...Blasted out of the House Rules Committee for House consideration the Administration's civil-rights bill to: 1) set up a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department; 2) establish a bipartisan commission to investigate civil-rights violations; 3) permit the Attorney General to take civil action to protect voting rights. The bill, after weeks of delaying tactics by Southern Democrats, was forced out of committee by a group of Republicans and Northern Democrats led by Missouri's Dick Boiling in an 8-3 vote...
...under siege until the New York police riot squad drove them out. In Parliament he was a passionate advocate of better housing. "My religion never came under discussion even in the heat of controversy." And everybody understood why he took an active part in the underground movement to establish the state of Israel: the parallel was close to every Irishman...
...Carola Mandel, Cuba-born beauty and wife of a Chicago department-store executive, broke 300 straight targets to beat three other top women and 14 men in the annual Rebel Open Skeet Shoot all-gauge championship at Jackson, Miss., went on to establish a new women's world record of 387 birds...