Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paying Texas with Georgia. The national committee, with Gabrielson calling the shots, seated 76 Taft delegates and 21 Ike delegates. Taft himself took credit for a "generous" offer to compromise the Texas fight. The key to this generosity was the theft of 15 seats in Georgia. The background...
...supporters that protests should not be raised in New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington," and they had agreed. Now, he added, he hoped that the committee would arrive at "an amicable and equitable settlement" of the Texas dispute. Hoover seemed to be saying that the Taftmen had been generous; now the Ikemen should reciprocate. But the fact was that there were no real contests in New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington which could be balanced against the contests in Texas and other Southern states...
...Eisenhower delegation from Texas stood 33 for Ike, five for Taft; the Taft delegation was divided 30 for Taft, four for Ike, four leaning to MacArthur. Said Taft: "While I will suffer a delegate loss in making this proposal, I am doing so because I think it is so generous that its equity cannot be questioned...
...show little interest in the College. Areas like California and Texas have a different situation. Here, even when the Committees are well-manned, they must compete with excellent institutions like California and Stanford on the coast, and with schools like SMU, Texas, and others--most of which are rather generous to athletes--in the South...
...penance was ended, the penance which its conquerors had vowed to impose for half a century. Germany-the richest, most populous, most important two-thirds of it-had climbed from defeat through vassalage to partnership with its Western conquerors. Its "contract" with the Western allies provided a peace more generous than even the most hopeful German could have imagined in the graveyard days of 1945. Its European Defense compact with the Western neighbors so recently overrun by German Panzers gave West Germans the right to have Panzers again-and the soldiers, rifles and munitions to go with them...