Word: racing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agenda; it came up on the conference floor in Washington last week just the same. Agreed a majority of the representatives of U.S. Greek-letter societies, in a resolution swathed in verbal cotton wool: fraternities that have "selective membership provisions" (i.e., whose bylaws bar anybody on grounds of race or religion) ought to "eliminate such selectivity provisions." The vote: 36 for, 3 against, 19 abstaining...
...Brannan plan," said the Grange, "has totally undesirable political implications . . . That party which would promise farmers the largest bonus out of the Treasury would garner many votes not obtainable on ... an honest, sound platform. It would then become a race to see which party would promise most...
Just over a week ago, President Truman regretfully accepted Lilienthal's resignation. This loss leaves the AEC looking for a chairman to carry it through what will probably be a tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control is created. This means increased production and hopped-up bombs; rumors of a six-times-more-powerful-than-Nagasaki weapon have been indirectly confirmed by the forthcoming Eniwetok tests. Electric generators run by atomic piles are well off the drawing boards; so are propulsion units for ships and even aircraft...
Last spring the '46 Album lost a close race with the '47-'48 Album to get on the presses of the Warren Press. '47-'48, with all its copy in, won the race and managed to reach the stands by May. The delay in printing '47-'48, with all its copy in, won the race and managed to reach the stands by May. The delay in printing '47-'48 caused the '46 Album to default on its promise to come out in time for the third reunion...
...bound to a national constitution which limits membership to "male Christians of the Aryan race...