Word: missouri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Press, Mon. thru Thurs. 9-10)," a dozen students have had to sit on the floor because the course had been oversubscribed. At the University of Texas, a new journalism building is so crowded that instructors have to share already cramped office space. To discourage applications, the University of Missouri's bulging journalism school this year raised its entrance requirements; applications rose 25% anyway...
...necessary to force compliance with our demands," the letter warned. "Our intent is to either collect $1 million or to make you people wish to hell we had." The message was signed "J. Hawker"-an apparent reference to the antislavery jayhawkers, who looted and marauded in Kansas, Missouri and other states before and during the Civil...
...zest for reform did not last very long. By a vote of 203 to 165, the House rejected a far-reaching committee-realignment bill proposed by Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling (TIME...
...Harry S. Truman Library (library and museum, that is) occupies a single large and dignified U-shaped building on a beautifully landscaped tract of 14 acres in Independence, Missouri--Truman's hometown. Independence was a boom town in the first half of the 19th century, one of the major outfitting centers for wagon trains heading west. By the turn of the century, it had become an agricultural and livestock center. Today, although Independence is steadily being pulled into the vortex of metropolitan Kansas City, its center remains a prosperous, pleasant county seat...
...committee chairmen realized quickly who stood to lose and who to gain from the package. Potential losers were naturally the most vociferous. "I'll fight to the death," proclaimed Missouri's Leonor Sullivan, the new chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, who as chairman of Ways and Means is considered the single most powerful man in the House, kept silent publicly for the moment, but was expected to speak up-loudly-before the voting...