Word: provenance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, many Northern lobbyists had proven rather imaginative in describing the Party to delegates, at times hinting that the FDP group in Atlantic City would be 50% white. Understandably, the Party wished to squelch such rumors at their source. Second, the Goldwater nomination had impressed FDP leaders with the importance of a Democratic victory in November, and there was acute worry that overzealous lobbying might turn the "Mississippi question" into a wedge between quarelling party factions in key states like New York and California...
...enlarge the individual potential and achievement of the people. The Federal Government exists not to subordinate the states, but to support them." The G.O.P. plank held that the Federal Government should "act only in areas where it has constitutional authority to act, and then only in respect of proven needs where individuals and local or state government will not or cannot adequately perform...
...election of a Republican President in November will somehow lead to war. This is the supreme political lie, and we've got to label it for what it is. Let me assure you here and now that a Goldwater-Miller Administration will mean an immediate return to the proven policy of peace through strength, which was the hallmark of the Eisenhower years. The Eisenhower-Dulles approach to foreign affairs is our approach...
...heat of summer withers marginal plays, and the survivors are either of proven merit or exceptional freshness. Best of the survivors...
...April, the news set off a wild rush of speculation in Canadian mining stocks. As prospectors staked out some 8,000 claims in the Timmins area, penny stocks became dollar stocks on the Toronto Exchange, and paper fortunes piled up almost overnight. Though most of the glory and the proven reserves belong to the lode's Yank discoverer, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Canadians were particularly pleased when one of their own companies seemed on the verge of its own strike. It was only a small company with a long-shot name-Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd.-but it began moving quickly...