Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most other Congressmen, viewing the long-debated bill from all political positions, felt about the same. The Senate promptly passed the bill on what members counted the same as a unanimous vote: only oddball Democrat Wayne Morse of Oregon and oddball Republican William Langer of North Dakota opposed. The House voted next day, 352-52, sent the bill on to the White House. When President Eisenhower signs, as he doubtless will and with some satisfaction, the reform act will become the U.S.'s first substantial labor legislation since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (which was passed over President...
Michigan Republicans last week felt real power in political muscles that had lain flabby during the eleven years in which Governor G. Mennen Williams has been serving his six terms. Thanks to the state's prolonged case of insolvency (TIME, May 13), Democrat Williams' political hopes for presidential attention were stalled-and even the Democrats knew...
...supplied infantry weapons. In last week's decision, the President went much further. He approved outlays from his own presidential contingency fund and other military aid sources to raise the little nation's armed strength to 29.000, ordered Navy Admiral Harry D. Felt, U.S. commander in the Far East, to airlift arms and equipment to the scene of trouble. With those two orders, and with the publicizing of them at his press conference, President Eisenhower threw still another major force into the struggle: he laid U.S. prestige on the jungle line in Laos almost as surely...
...celebrated the Roman Mass instead of Anglican Communion (and included a prayer for the Pope as "Head of the Church"). Yes, he had celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary-not recognized by the Church of England. In fact, said Harris, he deplored the Reformation and felt no loyalty to the post-Reformation church. Then he resigned...
Repercussions of the Rhodes meeting were felt even in Rome, where some newspapers printed exaggerated accounts of an informal gathering between Orthodox delegates and the Roman Catholic observers in the early stages of the meeting. Bearded Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which would be most involved in any reconciliation talks, turned the damper on by describing the meeting at Rhodes as little different from other contacts in past years between Roman Catholic and non-Roman Catholic scholars. He denied that the Vatican was planning a full-dress conference with Orthodox leaders...