Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much about his biggest headache: civil rights. Already Illinois' liberal Democrat Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey had teamed up with Republican Liberals Jacob Javits of New York and Cliff Case of New Jersey to poll all senatorial candidates on a plan to attack Rule 22, the South's license to stop all civil-rights legislation by filibuster. Douglas & Co. could count 41 votes for abolition of Rule 22 as the first order of Senate business, figured they were well within sight of a thunderous victory that would curl the hair of aging Dixiecrats...
...pilot film, the Texas Co. was all set to pay $4,500,000 for a package that included eight similar shows, but backed out at the last minute. High-octane operators were disturbed, so the story goes, over a brief, dull speech by New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits in the last portion of the dinner. But Producer Nat (Bilko) Hiken, himself a Democrat, would brook no interference. So far, no other buyers for the Friars...
...pacifist, Bible-quoting Amish sect is a survival from the 1690s, when it was founded by a Swiss named Jacob Ammann. In some of the 50 Amish settlements scattered around the U.S. and Canada, the old ways have yielded a little to the march of centuries, but the Amishmen of central Ohio have clung steadfastly to their traditional customs and costumes. They shun automobiles, movies, even home electricity. All married men grow beards, and all men, women and children wear black headdress in public. Farming and a few related trades such as blacksmithing and harness-making are the only approved...
...Continued the U.S.'s own basic military buildup on Formosa itself-a buildup powerfully augmented last week by the arrival of the Army's Nike-Hercules ground-to-air atomic rockets; ¶ Persevered with the Warsaw talks, in their seventh session, between the U.S.'s Ambassador Jacob D. Beam and Red China's Ambassador Wang Ping-nan on how to make the cease-fire formal, even though Chinese Nationalists on Formosa termed the talks "futile...
...other trend is an expression of pure and terrifying anti-Semitism, inflamed by sympathy to the cause of equal rights for the Negro evinced by the majority of the Southern Jewish community. Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, spiritual leader of the razed temple, has long supported the Supreme Court decisions. The blast is intended as a warning against Jewish sympathy to compliance with the Court decision...