Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRADE. With the reciprocal trade agreements expiring next June 30, the Administration will push for a five-year extension and some liberalization. The prospect is for a long, bitter fight, beginning in the House Ways and Means Committee (now chaired by Arkansas' Representative Wilbur Mills), continuing on the floor of both houses, probably ending in little more than a one-year extension of the present agreements...
CIVIL RIGHTS. The big issue of the last session, given new urgency by Little Rock, is lying strangely silent as the session opens. The Administration does not plan to push any new civil rights legislation, and the Democratic leaders hope that their most dangerous party-splitting issue will not rise to haunt them. Cracked one Democratic Senator last week: "Little Rock is now just a place that Sputnik flies over...
Conservative Republicans, e.g., Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, are planning to push their anti-Eisenhower brand of Republicanism even harder than before. There is little prospect that Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, with his mind on his campaign for the governorship of California, will be able or even willing to make the two-wings of the G.O.P. fly together to produce a unified force. And Knowland's heir apparent for the leadership, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, is still not quite sure which wing he wants to fly with...
...Gazing through his tinted picture windows at his fertile land, he recalls: "Back home we used to sit on the front porch and wait for rain. We'd go to camp meetings and pray for it. Well, out here all you have to do is push a button and you get all the rain [i.e., from deepwell systems] you want. Why, with all this land and all this water, nothing can hold us back...
Died. Jere Cooper, 64, Tennessee Congressman (from 1929), head of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee since 1955; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md. A slow-moving, oratorical technician, Democrat Cooper helped push through the present pay-as-you-go tax system...