Word: manye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his renewed vigor, Ike pitched zestfully into the business of politics. To pleased Congressmen came an increasing number of invitations to stop by the White House for drinks and chats, or to ride with the President in his plane. To Capitol Hill came many a warm letter, thanking legislators...
¶Three dozen Senators (26 Democrats, 10 Republicans ) joined New York Republican Jacob Javits in sponsoring a resolution declaring it "the sense of the Congress" that the U.S. Government should encourage "in every appropriate way" an American Bar Association plan for "a series of conferences of lawyers from many nations...
It seemed to many Congressmen at the end of the 1958 session that the man most likely to succeed Texas' 77-year-old Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was Arkansas' courtly, bass-voiced Wilbur Daigh Mills. With his combination of brains, earnestness and...
In 1953, when the Republican Eisenhower Administration took over after 20 years of Democratic rule, Democrats held 80% of all federal judgeships. That figure has since been whittled down to about 50%, and the Democratic Senate, fearing more attrition, has pigeonholed many Eisenhower judicial nominations (25 lay unconfirmed last week...
Soon after World War I, outside influences began to creep behind Amana's calico curtain. Young people wanted more than the eighth-grade education allowed by the elders. Secret radios were heard in defiance of a church ban, bicycles appeared, and one man even drove a car home. Worst...