Word: jessee
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Especially scary about that proposal is its implicit attack on another target: the Supreme Court. Last week's legislation--and a host of other bills pending before Congress many sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R.N.C.)--would dramatically curtail the Court in dealing with social issues. If those efforts succeed, the...
By far the angriest response to the decision came from Reagan's fellow conservatives. Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa accused Reagan of breaking the statutory U.S. defense commitments guaranteed by the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979. California Senator S.I. Hayakawa charged the President with "kowtowing to Peking." Said...
In Jesse James (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Fonda is virtually cornered into renegade political activism; a corrupt System flays him, but under the vulnerable Midwestern skin is a species of American hero. In his best comedy, The Lady Eve (1941), Fonda is the perfect patsy for a...
House Democratic leaders, clearly delighted by the unraveling of the Administration's deal with the Southern conservatives, went along with the elimination of sugar and peanut protection. But then came a vote on the tobacco allotment program, which allows only certain landowners to grow the crop. North Carolina Democrats...
The march setting out from the Atlanta University Center to the Georgia state capitol had a familiar look. In the lead was the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Surrounding him were 3,500 people carrying signs and singing civil rights songs. A demonstration for integration? Not at all. Crowds of black students...