Word: plan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri's Democrat Cochran presented the House with a Reorganization bill of which not even thunder-gusty Columnist-General Hugh Johnson could complain. Eschewing aspects which aroused cries of "Dictator!" last session, the new measure simply invited the President to submit before Jan. 21, 1941 a plan to alter the executive establishment. The plan would become effective if Congress should not (without filibustering) veto it by majority vote in 60 days. Things which the President may not touch or have: Comptroller-General's office, Civil Service Commission, Department of Public Welfare or Works, more than six administrative assistants...
According to the British plan, the new Palestine would come into being around 1942-1944. Its government would have to give Britain the guarantee that minority rights for the Jews would be respected, that the places holy to three religions in the country would be protected and that Britain would get the right to maintain such military, naval, air bases and oil reserves as she pleased...
...been made known, the Jewish delegation officially rejected them as a basis for further negotiations, but suggested they would continue their peace negotiations with the British and Arabs on some other basis. U. S. Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy told British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax that the British plan would have a "disastrous effect on public opinion...
...exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, were inclined to hold out for their original demands-complete Arab control of an independent Palestine-but the moderate Palestine Arabs and the Arabs from the other nations represented at the Round-Table meeting were disposed to accept the British plan. In Palestine, Arabs openly demonstrated their satisfaction with the British suggestions. Arab crowds took to the streets to celebrate "the reconquest of Palestine from the British." In the Holy Land this week bloody clashes among Jews, Arabs and British police in two days left more than 30 killed, scores wounded...
...Rugby Team is debating a plan to take a trip to Bermuda in spring vacation where it would meet Yale, Princeton, and Cornell...