Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries outside the rigid quotas of the 1952 McCarran Act.* The President, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Psychological Strategy Board had advocated the measure as an effective tool of U.S. foreign policy. McCarran, backed by several Southern Democrats and Midwestern Republicans, had fought the bill hard. Giving ground slowly, he had offered to compromise at 120,000 refugees, then 124,000, then 185,000, then 194,000. Turned down each time, he was ready, he told Hennings, to make a "final" offer...
...largest inland barge systems in the U.S., operating on 3,300 miles of the Mississippi and its tributaries in eleven Midwestern and Southern states. Physical assets: 253 barges, 4 tugs, 20 towboats, 20 new barges and one new towboat to be delivered this year, and a profitable 18-mile railroad...
...down from the rostrum into the well of the House one afternoon last week to make one of his infrequent speeches. He urged his fellow Republicans to vote for the $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Martin said, with a glance toward his Midwestern colleagues, that he believes in economy but that some grave mistakes can be made in its name. Said he: "Security is more precious than dollars . . . Let us take the leadership that God has placed in our hands and use it wisely for the benefit of humanity . . . Let us give Dwight...
...attempts to cut it. Sam Ray burn's side of the aisle did the most to "give Dwight Eisenhower a chance." Of the 280 votes for the bill, 160 were cast by Democrats, 119 by Republicans and one by an independent. The opposition votes came mostly from Midwestern Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...