Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opposition. After that the program faces the opposition of protectionists who have, for the first time in years, combined in support of a single rival bill. Authored by Pennsylvania's Republican Richard Simpson, it is openly designed to gut reciprocal trade. The key battle will come on a motion to send the reciprocal-trade bill back to the Ways & Means Committee, with orders that it approve the Simpson substitute...
...course of the student-faculty debate on the curfew, the four student members of the committee were removed because of the nature in which they raised objections to the motion under consideration...
...government of wanting a "showdown with labor," and Laborites demanded in the House of Commons that the government intervene immediately to end the strike. "It is for myself," replied Labor Minister Iain Macleod icily, "to judge when I should." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell scribbled out a censure motion on the spot. After a bitter debate, the censure was voted down...
Negotiations for a postponement are customarily set in motion by the home team. Thus Harvard must go to Cornell, unless Cornell should call Harvard and advise otherwise. It would be out of order for the H.A.A. to phone Ithaca. Precedent must be preserved...
...from PBH president Richard E. Rubenstein '59 stating that PBH would be too busy with other activities to coordinate the drive. At Leland's suggestion, vice president Paul E. Freehling '59 moved that the Council run the drive, and that the President appoint a chairman for the campaign. The motion carried unanimously...