Word: motto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specialists in medicine for the aging and aged may well grow old themselves in the struggle to carry out their motto: "To add life to years, not just years to life...
...across the country, most of the political furor swirled around one man: Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture. He took it calmly. Seated firmly behind his Washington desk, listening to politicians warn him that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...
...organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving the lot of low-income "dirt farmers." Today it argues that the American farmer has as much right to Government subsidies as the railroad and airline industries, clings to the motto: "True Parity for Real Prosperity." Says President Patton: "We will coordinate our efforts with organized labor. We will work to elect Congressmen, Senators and a President who will give agriculture a better break. We will give all candidates from the presidential ones on down our views, written and verbal...
...bill, but the Senate added a provision barring any person convicted under the act from "holding any office of honor, trust or profit under the U.S.," returned the bill to the House for final passage. ¶ Pass, in the House, a resolution making "In God We Trust" the U.S. motto. ¶ Slash, in the House Appropriations Committee, $56.8 million from Administration requests for the State and Justice Departments and the U.S. Information Agency. The committee refused to authorize two new prisons, snorted at a State Department request to buy an unspecified number of "executive wastebaskets" at $27 each, turned down...
Modern Times. In Launceston, Australia, conforming to the civic motto, "Progress with Prudence," city fathers amended an old bylaw requiring swimmers to wear neck-to-knee bathing suits, decided to allow more modern apparel on the beaches, provided the suits cover at least three inches...