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...House is sensitive about its pocketbook prerogative, and for a while last week the debate was hot and heavy. Texan Wright Patman, floor manager for the bill, hit at the opposition's weak spot: a nay vote would mean a decision against helping the economically depressed. "If you vote against it," he warned, "there will be no depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people...
...word from Sparkman would have prevented Senate confirmation, and even without a word, many Northern Senators teetered on the edge of a nay vote. But John Sparkman swallowed his bitter pill, loyally backed the President, and his fellow Senators went along, approving the Meriwether appointment...
...infected his U.S. disciples when they organized the Methodist Church in 1784. He was shocked at their first effort, Maryland's Cokesbury College, founded by Bishops Coke and Asbury. "I study to be little, you study to be great," he wrote. "I found a school, you a college-nay, and call it after your own names...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). In this week's debate and panel discussion, Biologist Sir Julian Huxley represents the affirmative on the question, "Is international birth control needed to head off world disaster?"; Belgian Demographer Jacques Mertens de Wilmars is the nay sayer...
...step when she comes to Washington!" But Pacifist Rankin's unique distinction in Congress is the fact that, in her two widely separated terms, she was the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry into both World Wars (in World War II, hers was the only nay...