Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story of "The House & Its Rulers" convinces me that the U.S. Congress is a luxury we can no longer afford. All we have is a group of seniority self-perpetuating, conniving egos that have built a monument of 285 billion reasons why they have failed...
...been accomplished, and my special requirements satisfied, then certainly [as a member of any special group] I do not need, do not deserve, and should not accept any special help from the Government. If I do so, I help deny equality of opportunity to all my fellow citizens. No longer am I a fully independent member of society. Rather I am, to the extent I profit unfairly at the expense of others, dependent on their bounty...
...lynching in Tripoli. "The time has come for the erection of gallows,'' said Interior Minister Raymond Edde, introducing a bill making capital punishment mandatory for "premeditated murder.'' Last week, made an issue of confidence by Premier Rashid Karami, the bill was passed, 28-3. No longer may a murderer plead as a mitigating circumstance the defense honored in Lebanon for centuries: a blood feud...
...gathered some of her own. And she shared his liberal journalistic approach. Old Guy would have been shocked at some of the changes gradually wrought in his empire. Not long after his death, the Gannett papers endorsed a Democrat-Edmund S. Muskie, running for Governor. Editing tightened: no longer was it considered news when a Portland merchant laid fresh bricks over the old store front. The papers' rock-bound horizons expanded; one Portland staffer went to India on a fellowship, another to France...
Although President Eisenhower seems unprepared to admit it, John Foster Dulles is no longer able to perform his duties as Secretary of State. His personal tragedy deserves the utmost sympathy. But the treatment required to check his illness is lengthy and not guaranteed to return the Secretary to his job on a full-time basis...