Word: order
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rightly or wrongly, Presidents on many occasions have irrevocably committed the country to foreign ventures without congressional consent. In the first two decades of the century, for example, American troops were sent repeatedly to preserve order or protect U.S. interests in Caribbean countries. In 1940 Franklin Roosevelt traded 50 World War I destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. As Winston Churchill observed, the action "would, according to all the standards of history, have justified the German government in declaring war." President Truman later dispatched troops to Korea without congressional approval, John Kennedy had his Bay of Pigs...
...introduced. This bill--introduced by Rep. John N. Erlenborn (R.-Ill.) and strongly supported by Rep. Green as an alternative to more stronger bills--would have required any colleges recelving federal funds to file with the Commissioner of Education its rules for on-ampus behavior and the maintenance of order. In an effort to gain more support, it was later amended so that colleges would only have to draw up such rules, and show them to the commissioner on request...
...telephone interview less than two hours after police cleared University Hall, President Pusey said that one of his main reasons for authorizing the police action was the demonstrate that new repressive laws were not needed to deal with events such as those at Harvard. "We must keep order on our own campuses," he said, and went on to state that, if colleges failed to do so, other bodies, such as the Congress, would take on the task. Later, in his testimony before the Green subcommittee, Pusey engaged in what was perhaps a bit of verbal over-kill, saying that colleges...
commenting upon the opinion, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci pointed out it meant that, next Sunday afternoon, a police officer could order the rock groups to lessen their noise, and arrest them if they failed to comply...
...here we go again! Following are today's winners listed in their order of finish...