Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24--Senate leaders announced plans today to reform the election laws in advance of the presidential and congressional campaigns this year. Majority Leader Johnson (D-Tex.) said one aim of the legislation is to put political contributions "in a goldfish bowl," for all the voters...
...indicated, however, that the bill would apply only to elections, not primary campaigns. Johnson said the proposed bill will provide "stringent" requirements for the reporting of campaign contributions. It will also provide federal tax exemption for up to $100 of individual political contributions. The idea of this is to encourage more people to make comparatively small donations and thus broaden financial participation in election campaigns...
Another section, Johnson said, would permit TV and radio networks to give equal free time to candidates of the major parties without having to accord the privilege to "splinter" groups...
Princeton's captain, Jay Evans, holds the visitors' strength in the 50 and 100 with times this season of 23.6 and 53 seconds flat. Dyer, Gus Johnson, Rog Clifton, and Jon Lind will have to be at top speed to beat him; in fact, Evans may show enough to drive Dyer to lowering the Crimson records the junior already holds in these events...
...Mother of Us All is likened by its creators to a pageant of the passing 19th century. Across the stage in its course pass Daniel Webster, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Anthony Comstock, Lillian Russell and Ulysses S. Grant. "The costumes," the authors specify, "should sharply exemplify regions, decades, and social circumstances. The variety of these against a more generalized historical background should offer a spectacle no more anachronistic than that suggested to the mind by the perusal of a volume of old photographs...