Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What we are supposed to be doing today," protested Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, "is raising revenue, not spending it." Attacking Republican Senator Winston Prouty's proposal to extend social security benefits to all Americans aged 70 or more, Louisiana's Long cried that "it would be just as well to scatter $100 bills in a high wind." For all his protestations, the Senate, in mutinous mood, approved a variation of Prouty's amendment to the Administration's tax-boosting bill that would cost $120 million in its first year...
...share in pushing the U.S. into the Spanish-American War. Some time before, a young scholar named Woodrow Wilson had written mournfully: "The President may tire the Senate by dogged persistence, but he can never deal with it upon a ground of real equality. His power does not extend beyond the most general suggestion. The Senate always has the last word." Noted Senator George Hoar at the turn of the century: "If Senators visited the White House, it was to give, not to receive, advice...
...campaign of 1940, shared his belief that freedom could not be founded only on American shores or only for those whose skin is white. "Freedom is an indivisible word," Wendell Willkie said. "If we want to enjoy it and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone-whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not; no matter what their race or the color of their skin." That was Republican policy 25 years ago. It was Democratic policy 25 years ago. It is American policy tonight...
...leaflet distribution was a first step in an effort by a newly-organized SDS committee to extend its appeal to labor...
...grant extends only until the end of 1966, Gustav Papanek, Acting Director of the Service, said yesterday. Renewal depends on the outcome of congressional and presidential election set for March and May, he extend...