Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...including church, labor, Negro and veterans' groups-fought the Byrd machine's proposal as complicated and dishonest. They feared that the blank-check authority it granted the Byrd-controlled legislature to set up new voting requirements might prove more harmful to their cause than the present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll-tax 2 amendment went down by a 24,000-vote margin. ¶Campaign strategists for Senator Robert Taft got off to a flying start in the 1950 elections by steering through an amendment eliminating straight-ticket voting from the Ohio...
...Chinese Reds have shown themselves utterly uninhibited by the presence of U.S. diplomats. But State hopes that once formal diplomatic relations are established, the Reds will have to treat U.S. representatives with a little more respect. At present some U.S. representatives, far from getting useful reports on Red China's difficulties back to the policymakers in Washington, are not even in a position to write a letter home (see below...
...Past v. Present. As time passed, the Chicago Fight earned the university various tags-"Chicago Thomism," "Aristotelianism on the Midway," the "Return to the Middle Ages." Some professors, including Gideonse and George Mead, head of the philosophy department, resigned. One hundred and nineteen members of the academic senate signed a manifesto protesting Hutchins' views. Professors began calling him "Saint Robert of the Midway." >A new song was sung: "Should auld Aquinas be forgot...
...Hutchins, the greatest need of the present was a broad, unified education that would train men to think importantly alone, but also to talk wisely together. For 20 years, that has been his mission at Chicago...
...hand as much as 50%. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture tried to calm things down a bit. There was enough coffee around, said the department, to prevent an acute'shortage. The National Coffee Association agreed. Snapped an N.C.A. official: "There's no question but that present excessive demand is entirely artificial and unhealthy...