Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans George D. Aiken and John J. Williams rejected the finished bill outright, and three other members (two Democrats, one Republican) joined them in a minority report rejecting the feed-grain support clause. It was, they agreed, "the kind of contradiction which caused the President to veto the original farm bill," and would boost costs for dairy, livestock and poultry farmers. The full Senate, considering the bill this week, would have to decide how much attention to pay to the mail and how much to the filigree...
Into this situation Soviet Russia plunged boldly by offering to Avunduk to put Turkish business back on its feet by outright gifts and barter loans. The Soviet commercial attaché invited Avunduk and his friends to come to Russia to see for themselves what Russia could do. He also said that Russia was prepared to aid Turkey through private enterprise on a scale far bigger than aid hitherto given to India and Burma...
...Council's plan would lengthen the break between terms by at least three days, the extra day being taken from the spring term reading period. The CEP is expected either to support the calendar revision without modification or to advise its outright defeat...
...Syria in their Arab "neutral" bloc, and he had already opened negotiations with the British on terms that seemed likely to assure for the young king the continuing of London's $25 million yearly subsidy, and the presence of a British military training mission, instead of the outright British command of Jordanian troops that had so galled Jordan's newly developing national sense of self-respect...
...smoker action followed a defeat, 10-3, of the motion of Paul L. Scher '57 to abolish the function outright. The group then passed unanimously a bill by Larry R. Johnson '58, calling for Council appointment of a committee of members of past Union and Smoker committees to recommend to next year's Union committee the results of its investigation...