Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee hopes to vote this week to endorse Ford, allowing the Senate to confirm his nomination before the Thanksgiving recess. Over on the House side, the Judiciary Committee expects to start its hearings this week, hoping to make its recommendation in early December. There is not much doubt about the outcome. About the only critical word came from Texas Representative George Mahon, who observed that while Ford could hit a golf ball a country mile, his short game left something to be desired...
Javits' book notes a steady erosion in the congressional power. In 1793 George Washington issued a Neutrality Proclamation during a congressional recess, thus unilaterally withdrawing the U.S. from any involvement in revolutionary France's fight with Britain in the face of great popular support for the nation's first ally. Thomas Jefferson secretly schemed to enlarge the Navy's operations in the Barbary wars. President James Folk's reckless acquiescence to annexation fever during the Mexican War created dissent in Congress and among non-frontier voters that, in Javits' view, stood "unequaled until...
Harvard Ecology Action will supply money for the fight, Ruth C. Streeter '76, a spokeswoman, said Wednesday, and will begin a petition drive next week. She added that the group may send some students to Arkansas during Christmas recess to study the plant and its possible environmental hazards...
Harvard Ecology Action will supply money for the fight, Ruth C. Streeter '76, a member of the group, said yesterday. She added that the organization will probably send some students to Arkansas during the Christmas recess to study the plant and possible environmental hazards...
...effort to muster widespread support for the campaign, the activists suggested that students going home for the recess boycott their parents' Thanksgiving dinner tables. Faced with a challenge to their liberal values and the hunger on their children's faces, the organizers say, parents will break open their checkbooks and forward contributions to embattled, integrated free schools...