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...bill will be introduced to restore public ownership and control of the main part of the steel industry," read Queen Elizabeth in leisurely tones. That signaled Wilson's determination to forge ahead with Labor's main ideological plank: renationalization of Britain's 14 major steel companies. Already suffering from overproduction and corroded prices, the British steel industry could best be helped by private mergers and public investment aimed at modernization. The industry is likely to become, if anything, even less efficient under nationalization. Wilson thus gave in to his party's left and showed that...
...could disagree with the report's findings, they could hardly accept its recommended remedies. The liberals demanded that the National Committee elicit no-discrimination pledges from all state and local G.O.P. groups on pain of expulsion, and require Mississippi's Republicans to drop the pro-segregation platform plank they adopted in 1964. The party's congressional leadership, urged the report, should reject converts such as South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Representative Albert Watson unless they state their "agreement with the cardinal Republican principle of equal opportunity for all Americans" before crossing the aisle...
...owed his national reputation to his fire-and-brimstone speech on behalf of a plank at the 1948 convention, which separated the Democrats from the Dixiecrats in short order. Senator Humphrey established himself as one of Washington's most voluble men-Johnson was later to say that "the time it takes Humphrey to prepare a speech is the time it takes to draw a deep breath"-and he offended many of his seniors, including those who controlled committee assignments and the fate of the bills he introduced in profusion (the first was for a medicare program...
...brand of care was apt to be debilitating, Pierce County Prosecutor John G. McCutcheon contended. As McCutcheon told ft, Boehme and Mary were working around the family's new 40-ft. cabin cruiser last June 29 when Mary was struck on the head by a wooden plank "under very peculiar circumstances." As she lay half stunned, Boehme gave her an injection. Next day, at Tacoma's St. Joseph Hospital, where Mary was admitted in critical condition, Dr. Stanley Durkin was puzzled by her symptoms. Miraculously, Mary rallied, and by 7:30 that night was in such good condition...
...Enough." The commission eschewed "czarlike powers" for the proposed Hudson authority, would indeed give it little more than the power of persuasion. Some conservationists contended that this might not be sufficient for an eleventh-hour rescue mission. Democratic Representative Richard Ottinger, who was elected on a plank of restoring the Hudson Valley, said that "with respect to the ambitions of certain special-interest groups, this is not enough." It was at least a hopeful beginning...