Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked Congress to revise the Full Employment Act of 1946 so as to reduce pressures for inflationary measures. With that proposal, in perhaps the most closely reasoned of all his economic reports, the President of the U.S. set forth the standards for an era of prudent affluence: "To make reasonable price stability an explicit goal of federal economic policy, coordinate with the goals of maximum production, employment, and purchasing power...
...Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, both lately risen from the Lower House to the Continuing Body, rubbed in a delicate point by scheduling a discussion this week titled "The House: Changing Institution in a Changing Society...
...police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before the Johnson order to make the records available to the Civil Rights Commission.) "I have no apologies for any action," Wallace said. "I am ready to face any consequences I may have to bear...
...Kentucky's huge (51,000 acres, 150 miles of passageways) Mammoth Cave National Park. Ever since 1941, when the U.S. received Mammoth Cave's stalactite-studded underground chambers as a gift from Kentucky, the National Park Service has been thirsting to take over Onyx and Crystal to make up a more attractive tourist package. Last year the Park Service dickered with private owners, agreed to pay $365,000 for low-vaulted Onyx, $285,000 more for Crystal.* If Congress appropriates the funds, the Park Service will spend another $1,200,000 improving roads to make access easier...
Down Went the Facade. To make matters worse, there was still the tricky question of just who was to be buried in the Valley of the Fallen. Franco had decreed that the dead or both sides should lie there. But his own Falange followers kicked up such a fuss that the matter had to be dropped (TIME, Sept. 22). With the public not at all in the mood for a dedication of the Valley, Franco began stalling for time...