Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Term . . ." How did it happen? For one thing, as Dwight Eisenhower said later, "Maine had a very popular governor." Genial Ed Muskie, son of a Polish immigrant, had turned in a successful administration, programmed improvements in social welfare, education, development of natural resources, asked for a minimum wage law, a new department of industry and commerce, and proposed a bond issue to maintain the pace of highway construction. What further fired Maine's independent-minded voters was Muskie's straightforward eggheadedness (Bates '36, Phi Beta Kappa), his ability to discuss convincingly ethical and moral questions...
...anticipation as Eden began to elaborate. The association, he said, would ask Nasser to let its ships pass through the canal. "If the Egyptian government should seek to interfere ["Deliberate provocation!" cried a Laborite] with the operations of the association or refuse to extend to it the essential minimum of cooperation, then that government will once more be in breach of the Convention of 1888." A heckler shouted: "What a peacemaker...
Died. Archbishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara, 75, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., who as a young rector in Oregon was named chairman of the state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy...
...officer with 19 separate assignments in 28 years of service. Newcomer Gordon improved Carville's physical plant and administration, but set out to change the hospital's famed, widely admired system. He ordered the hospital staff to stop fraternizing with patients, discouraged visits by the public, upped minimum age for visitors (other than relatives) from twelve to 20. The worst blow to patients: a ban on games, sports, and dances between patients and nonpatients...
...total cotton sales in 1955-56 by doubling exports to 4,500,000 bales while keeping domestic consumption at last year's 9,200,000-bale level or even increasing it. With flexible price supports between 75% and 90% of parity, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson hopes that minimum acreage allotments (17.4 million acres in 1957) and marketing quotas (n million bales) will hold next year's crop to 13 million bales, or about this year's level. Furthermore, under the new soil-bank program Benson hopes that farmers will increase the number of acres taken...