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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Estes Kefauver is fighting the nomination of sometime (1953-58) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss as Commerce Secretary, has requested a hearing during the Senate Commerce Committee's pro forma session on the nomination. Kefauver, aiming to keep the home folks happy on a hot local issue, contends that Strauss violated federal law five years ago by leading the AEC into an ill-starred private-power contract that boomeranged into the Dixon-Yates controversy. Kefauver's hopes of heading off Senate approval of Strauss are slim: not even so staunch a Strauss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL NOTES: Fears & Frustrations | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Such forthright action seemed to please the local white population, but it dismayed London. Though committed to the federation, the Colonial Office is beginning to have regrets that it had ever agreed to the idea. The Spectator took Britain to task for bundling Nyasaland "huggermugger into an unwilling association with the Rhodesias." The Daily Mirror demanded that the government make it absolutely clear that Britain would never abandon the Nyasas "to the control of local whites," lest one more Union of South Africa be born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NYASALAND: Huggermugger Trouble | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...prowl for a candidate for mayor in next fall's election, Philadelphia Republican leaders sounded out a local lawyer. Would he? Answered bald, ever-boyish Harold Stassen, 51, Governor of Minnesota (1939-43), sometime (1955-58) presidential assistant on disarmament, soundly defeated candidate last spring for the Republican gubernatorial nomination: a tentative yes-if the bosses can rout up enough rank-and-file support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Speaking in opposition to the proposals at a State House committee hearing, Henry M. Leen, an attorney representing the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and Boston College, said that the bill would allow local zoning appeal boards arbitrary power to block church and school building plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners Ask Zoning Power Over College | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

Roger A. Moore '53, Harvard's attorney at the hearing, asserted that the University now conforms to all Cambridge zoning regulations, but did not want to "be compelled" to have to seek local approval because of the possibility of arbitrary blocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners Ask Zoning Power Over College | 3/7/1959 | See Source »

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