Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried to bring the bill to the floor, it took two days even to muster a quorum...
...everyone could recall how California's voters rejected the Rumford fair-housing act by a 2 to 1 margin in 1964, defeating Democratic Senatorial Candidate Pierre Salinger, a Rumford backer, in the process. With Congressmen worried about their constituents' reactions, even the gutted provision could muster only a 179 to 179 tie in a crucial test vote, which then was broken in favor of the open-housing measure by the chairman...
...Negative? Wilson will need all the support he can muster, for his own party is badly fractured over his freeze-squeeze plan. As he rose in the House to deliver his economic message amid Tory cries of "Where is George?," the Deputy Prime Minister and Economics Minister, George Brown, was indeed absent from the Labor front bench. He was in fact back at his office trying to make up his mind whether he should resign from the Cabinet. A strong believer in economic expansion, he saw Wilson's plan as too negative. Its deflationary content clearly meant a sharp...
...bill "mandates" him to use the funds for the Navy's frigates. If enacted, it could result in an unprecedented constitutional impasse between the executive and legislative branches. The committee tried the same maneuver in 1962 under Rivers' predecessor, Carl Vinson, but the Administration was able to muster enough strength to persuade Vinson to back down...
Time to "take off the gloves," said Governor W. Haydon Burns after he failed to muster a majority in Florida's May 3 Democratic primary. Instead, he stuck out his chin. In last week's run off for the party's nomination for Governor, he first threw away the votes of a lot of rural whites. Then he proceeded to throw away the votes of a lot of urban Negroes. That still left plenty of Floridians, but not enough to save the presumably entrenched political pro from disaster...