Word: harold
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Jorgensen won the Harold S. Ulen trophy, named in honor of his coach and awarded to the most valuable senior on the squad. He also won the Wyman medal for the most points scored in the season's meets...
Hailing this catchall as a bill "that will give immediate relief to farmers," Ellender and Democrat Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, announced that they "fully expected" it would pass both House and Senate, perhaps within the week. At week's end President Eisenhower called Ezra Benson in for a discussion of the bill. Emerging, Benson strongly implied a veto unless Congress changed the measure considerably. Then Ike set up a farm bill conference with congressional leaders. The White House hope, a dim one: House and Senate may still make some sense out of what the conference...
...sedition" when it passed the 1940 Smith Act and succeeding anti-subversive statutes. State laws are "in no sense uniform," and their enforcement could present "serious danger of conflict" with federal antisubversion operations. In the strongest dissent that Earl Warren has ever faced, Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition, specifically barred the exercise of state power to punish the same acts under state...
...their digging zeal, the newsmen have performed a worthwhile service. Government administrators have been put on guard; mistakes have not gone long unnoticed. The working press has helped prod the Administration into swift action in some cases, e.g., the resignation of former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott. In that way the correspondents have proved a blessing in disguise to the Republican Administration, though as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, when he applied the phrase to the British Labor victory in 1945, "the disguise is perfect...
President Harold W. Dodds has so far refused to interfere in the plans for the speech...