Word: proposall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶The House Republican leadership polled G.O.P. House members, reported that they are overwhelmingly opposed to a major Administration proposal: federal aid for school construction.
The final testing of power came at a special meeting of the powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his...
Around the Cabinet table at No. 10 Downing Street, Britain's Harold Macmillan moved to soothe the ruffles raised in the family by the Suez adventure. As the private talks ranged from the Middle East to Russia to defense, one newsmaking proposal came from Canada's Diefenbaker. Having...
¶ Listened quite patiently as Democrat Paul Douglas, whose home state of Illinois ranks No. 1 in corn production, urged a congressional joint resolution "designating the golden corn tassel as the floral emblem of the U.S." In support of his proposal-duly referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary...
Backed by the American Jewish Congress and the New York Board of Rabbis, some citizens denounced the whole idea as a violation of the separation of church and state. Others maintained that the interdenominational version was really a "new religion" and hence offensive to all faiths. One lawyer argued that...