Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Partial Launches Successes Successes Failures
...skidding to a halt. The committee, which ten times has vowed never to boost the federal gasoline tax, changed its mind; it approved a 1? hike to 4? a gallon, effective for 22 months from Sept. 1 to June 30, 1961. The lopsided vote (16 to 9) marked a partial victory for the Administration; it has championed a fiveyear, 1½? boost, bucked a congressional bond-floating plan that would have added huge interest charges, increased vastly the cost of the program. Both Congress and the Administration are expected to accept the Ways & Means compromise...
...Specifically, the Landrum-Griffin bill 1) bans picketing by one union where another union is recognized, also where the picketing union has not applied for a NLRB recognition election within the preceding 30 days; 2) extends Taft-Hartley's partial ban on secondary boycotts to railroad, airline, farm and domestic workers, outlaws threats of boycott; 3) authorizes states to handle no-man's-land disputes...
...collection, leads Miss Agnes Mongan, Acting Director of the Fogg, to remark with justifiable pride: "You would have to go a long way--either across America or upon the Continent--to find a better 19th century collection this summer." For those readers who prefer deeds to words, a rather partial inventory of the collections shows: 12 water-colors and drawings by Cezanne, and oils by the following: Gauguin (1), Monet (3), Picasso (3), Modigliani (2), Renoir (4), Van Gogh (3), Degas (2), Rousseau (1) and Toulouse-Lautrec...
...that caused concern as well as hope; in some, harsh methods employed new guises. But in this Geneva interval, when a basic worldwide test was how firmly nations stood on their own, how able and anxious they were to resist the reach of Communism, the results were impressive. A partial check list...