Word: minn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapons they have to encourage party loyalty. Finally, they know that they, being more senior than most of their colleagues, will soon inherit choice committee chairmanships--if they can maintain patience with the present system! This argument would be likely to impress even Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), whose liberal reputation might well keep him from a voted committee chairmanship. If the present rules are maintained, however, he will receive a chairmanship that no one could contest, simply by virtue of his seniority...
Senate Republicans supported Ribicoff's proposal strongly, by a count of 26-5, while 19 Democrats voted for the measure and 43 against it. In the final vote, three of its co-sponsors opposed the amendment: Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), who is the assistant majority leader, Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), and Frank Moss (D-Utah). Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz), an announced candidate for the Presidency, voted for Ribicoff's proposal...
...past there has been some debate about what form any tax relief should take. Dodd proposed an outright exemption of $1200, but Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) has been favoring a tax credit, which permits the parent to deduct a specified amount from his, tax bill. It is argued that credit will be of more assistance to persons of low income than the exemption...
Other liberal senators, reasoning as Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) did last year that the advantages of exemptions and credits could be given as profitably to parents as well as to business, may join Ribicoff and Humphrey on Tuesday...
...from short selling barrels of pork in the Civil War, helped make Chicago the hog butcher for the world. Big-city slaughterhouses, geared to seasonal rushes and stretches of idleness, have been replaced by busy little "country" abattoirs closer to such cattle towns as West Point, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Meanwhile, since supermarkets buy out of Chicago and a few large centers, Armour has steadily closed down a quarter of the distributing plants that it once needed across the U.S. to serve 250,000 corner groceries. With farmers finding increasingly better ways to raise meat animals, Armour now can slaughter...