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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Larry Johnson '58, Student Council president said yesterday that the question of Harvard's NSA membership would probably come before the Council in late spring or early fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Ballot Votes to Remain With National Students Association | 2/9/1957 | See Source »

...justice in a world where moral law prevails." Ike, crowed Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, had "laid it right on the line, not only to the American people but to the world." The Senate's top Democrat, Texas' Lyndon Johnson, said the Eisenhower speech had "set forth goals and objectives with which every American will agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Right on the Line | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...what he called a "shaken earth." And- although it was not especially noticeable last week in the hearings on the Administration's Middle Eastern proposals-there was also a heavy burden of responsibility on the Congressmen who had been so effusive in their praise. For as Lyndon Johnson carefully noted: "Our task is to find means that will achieve [the President's] ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Right on the Line | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...only remaining hope for a non-partisan appraisal of the nation's financial structure rested last week with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson. While Johnson is dead set against a strictly presidential commission because he fears that it might be dominated by big business and big banking, he is equally afraid that a House investigation alone might degenerate into bitter partisan battle. To break the impasse, Johnson is pushing for a compromise commission of his own, one-third of whose members would be named by President Eisenhower, with the other two-thirds divided between the House and Senate, somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Ambush | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Died. Albert. Johnson, 87, longtime (1913-33) Republican Representative from Washington who co-authored (with the late Senator David Aiken Reed) the U.S.'s restrictive 1924 immigration law (superseded in 1952 by the McCarran-Walter Act), which limited all immigration to 2% per year of the foreign-born from each country in the U.S.'s 1890 population, set up a quota system (effective in 1930) to stem the inflow from Southern Europe and Asia; of a heart attack; in American Lake. Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 28, 1957 | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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