Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reed quickly rounded up the Republicans on his own committee, who realized that their prestige would be seriously hurt if the House leadership made a complete end run around them. Said Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Dick Simpson: "Let's grab the ball." Unanimously, the 14 agreed to hold hearings on extending the excess profits tax, as Ike requested...
After Reed's Ways & Means men reported their decision to hold hearings, Joe Martin gently prodded them into fixing June 1 as the starting date, with the hope that the job would be finished in ten days. With that, Joe Martin could draw an easier breath; the first phase of his job was done, and not a drop of Republican blood had been spilled. At week's end the prospects were that the extension of EPT would be voted by the House. Said one House leader: "A week ago I would have bet you 20 to 1 there...
...convention floor to win a majority of delegates. But that one break was crucial. Since many of the delegates were Quirino jobholders or otherwise beholden to him, Romulo demanded a secret ballot. Quirino's professionals deftly outmaneuvered Romulo by taking an open ballot to decide whether to hold a secret ballot. Just as a sudden thunderstorm broke overhead, the results were announced: 243 for the secret ballot, 644 against it. When Romulo's Floor Manager Tomas Cabili added up the figures, the convention broke into a thunderstorm of its own. "This means 887 delegates voting," he shouted...
...Progressive Party won British Guiana's elections last month (TIME, May 11), it was the first time that Reds reached power in the British Empire. Last week, the P.P.P.s went right on setting precedents. For the formal opening of the new colonial Assembly, in which they hold 18 of 24 seats, party members agreed to wear what may turn out to be a sort of new Communist uniform for the tropics-white suits and red ties. The party's three women members were scheduled to appear in white dresses, with red rosettes at the shoulder...
...state of internal war." While this does not affect the ordinary businessman or worker who keeps his mouth shut, it has a very real meaning for people suspected of being enemies of Perón. It means that the police may legally arrest any resident of Argentina and hold him indefinitely, without ever bringing any charge against him. (There are now an estimated 80,000 cops in Buenos Aires alone; New York City, with a population nearly three times as large, has 20,000.) While in jail at the "disposition of the executive," political prisoners are treated reasonably well...