Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight Finance Committee irresponsibles voted for the major changes. The Democrats: New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, Delaware's J. Allen Frear, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, Louisiana's Russell Long, Florida's George Smathers. The Republicans: Indiana's William Jenner, Nevada's George Malone, Pennsylvania's Edward Martin. Often thought of as a blinkered old fogy, Virginia's Committee Chairman Harry Byrd. 71, rose to his responsibility by backing the House's version...
...Jake Wade (MGM) is a horse opera of another color. Metro-color is what they call it, and it sure is loud. There is probably nothing more than gold in them thar hills, but to look at the screen, anybody might think there was neon. Still, the Sierra Nevada, in which much of the film was shot, is pretty hard to spoil. Its purple mountain majesties look down in mineral calm upon what is probably the most stupendous avalanche of clichés to roll across the screen since the last major western was released...
...Merl Young was convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly and Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, were convicted of tax fraud conspiracy, last week won an appeal for a hearing on their demand...
...Senate passed 88 to I (Nevada's George Malone) the Kennedy-Ives labor bill (TIME, June 23), after voting to require employers as well as union officers to swear that they are not Communists to qualify for National Labor Relations Board services. The Senate earlier rejected a Kennedy-Ives proposal to strike the requirement from the law as "ineffective." Aiming at correcting labor abuses by requiring 1) periodic secret-ballot union elections, 2) regular union reporting to the U.S. Labor Department on financial and other dealings, the bill now goes to the House, where its fate, in an election...
...industries, which have been hit by imports and decreasing demand. Congressmen from Western mining states, who have been agitating for tariff boosts, seem ready to support some form of the Seaton plan, are expected to go alorg with the Administration's request for extension of reciprocal trade. Said Nevada's Senator George Malone of the Seaton proposal: "I think it's excellent as an interim plan...