Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revision bill, still proclaimed as the New Frontier's No. 1 legislative goal of 1963, is not expected to emerge from the House Ways and Means Committee until some time in August, far behind schedule. And the Senate Finance Committee will not even begin to hold hearings on a tax bill until after Ways and Means has completed its work...
More agreeable to some kinds of New Frontier legislation than the House, the Senate has passed the Administration's bill to help state and local governments develop mass-transportation facilities. It has also approved a Kennedy bill to set up a Youth Conservation Corps, plus a "home town" youth employment program. In the House, however, both measures seem likely to linger in the Rules Committee, headed by Virginia Democrat Howard W. Smith. The Senate also passed the Administration's area redevelopment bill, but the House voted it down...
...Frontier is fond of blaming the Republicans for the 88th's balkiness. And it is true that the Republicans in Congress, especially in the House, have displayed rare unity this year in opposing the President. Of the 178 Republicans in the House, only one went along with Kennedy's latest request for an increase in the debt ceiling, and only one voted for the Administration feed-grains bill...
...princesses, some of them, they're the worst of the lot. When they write asking the price of something, I give orders to set a price a little extravagant and then we never hear from them again. · · · In what looked like a New Frontier version of the Queen's List, the White House announced the names of 31 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest peacetime U.S. civilian honor, awarded to only 24 persons since 1945. Hidden away among such names as Ralph Bunche, Pablo Casals, Felix Frankfurter, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, George...
...fast and furious century, the boom lasted, producing a frontier society of bad men, high-priced low ladies, and sausage that sold for 3 drams of gold a link. But in Minas Gerais' old capital of Ouro Preto (Black Gold), the wealth also brought Brazil's first real intellectual and artistic atmosphere, and its first effective stirrings of independence. It was there in 1789 that an army officer named Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (nicknamed Tiradentes, "the tooth puller," because of the amateur dentistry he practiced) joined a conspiracy against Portuguese colonial authority. The Portuguese hanged, quartered...