Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Senate wrangled in disorganized confusion. Members were tired of night sessions, tired of each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon's Wayne Morse, always one of the quickest to anger, rose in shrill complaint...
...chipped and chiseled away at the whole tripod of U.S. foreign policy-ECA, the North Atlantic pact, the arms program for Western Europe. Their weapon was an amendment drafted by Nebraska's Republican floor leader Kenneth Wherry, which would lop $1.9 billion off ECA's budget and extend it only a year...
President Conant will extend greetings and congratulations to Killian, following his inauguration, on behalf of Harvard and the Universities of America. A host of other leaders in education, technology, religion, and government will be on hand for the ceremonies...
Florence R. Kluckhohn, lecturer in Sociology, will complete the University faculty delegation at the Student Concil sponsored Seminar, which will be held for the third summer in a row at Schloss Leopoldskron. It will extend from July 17 to August 27 and will have 12 instructors in all from the United States...
...Senate, the Administration's attempt to give the Taft-Hartley Act a swift knockout collapsed. The Labor and Public Welfare Committee had been holding day & night sessions to speed the repealer bill, finally had to extend public hearings for two more weeks. It was a serious blow to labor. Many labor contracts will come up for renegotiation in April, and labor had hoped that by then a modified Wagner Act would have replaced the Taft-Hartley Act on the books. That now looked unlikely...