Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fit the White House schedule, California's Bill Knowland, acting majority leader, presented a stripped-down list of "must" legislation: 1) Reorganization Plan No. 2, to give Agriculture Secretary Benson sweeping powers to reform and reshuffle his vast department; 2) reciprocal-trade extension; 3) the continental-shelf bill to give the Federal Government control of offshore oil beyond state boundaries; 4) the Watkins bill to grant emergency visas to 240,000 Iron Curtain refugees, other aliens. Also on the agenda: routine appropriations, extension of the excess profits tax. Apparently overboard for this session: 1) Hawaiian statehood; 2) revision...
...Kingdom fit for such...
...subcommittee anything at all about her relation to the party. The Corporation's findings: though she once taught a biology course at the Communist-run Samuel Adams School in Boston. Dr. Markham was never actually in the party. "We regret," said Harvard, "that Dr. Markham did not see fit to supplement the official record before the committee to this effect, but we do not regard that as controlling...
Replied Mrs. Markham: "You retaliate at Harvard because it has seen fit to retain me. Any inquiry on that is irrelevant...
...William E. Jenner (R-Ind), and Rep. Harold H. Velde (R-III) both saw fit to comment. There were the usual complement of crank letters too. Many colleges expressed interest. At last report the student newspaper at Bonn University in Germany printed an account...