Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before 1936, the South did not have to resort to the threat of revolt. Its interest was protected by the rule requiring two-thirds of the delegates to nominate a candidate for President. When Roosevelt ended the two-thirds rule, he opened the way to the Southern revolt of 1948 and the muffled Southern revolt...
Asked if the Soviet dictator would be walling to resort to war to accomplish his expansionist ends, Kirk alluded to Stalin's many outstanding accomplishments and said that he has a "strong sense of history." Although he is under pressure from ambitions military advisors and theorists. "I think he's too prudent for that." Kirk stated. "Besides, he's 72, and even for a Georgian, that...
Winston Churchill's Tories finally got their first major piece of legislation through the House of Commons: a bill to make the vast socialized-medicine program created by Labor pay more of its own way. To get the bill passed, the Tories had to resort to the unpopular "guillotine" to limit debate (TIME, May 5) and employ the budget-wise arguments of a pretty red-haired M.P., Miss Patricia Hornsby-Smith...
...Block Island plans were conceived as a practice project for the men in architectural planning and landscaping at the school. The Island has been on the decline for the past few decades as a resort, yet it has the potentiality to be one of the foremost summer havens in the East...
...hard-drinking, free-spending Oilman Glenn McCarthy has been trying to find some new money fast. In November, he dashed over to Egypt, trying for an oil franchise (TIME, Dec. 3). Next, he rushed off to Guatemala, talked of starting a chain of hotels and a gambling resort fancier than Monte Carlo. Last month McCarthy announced plans to sell 10 million shares of stock, at $2 a share, in a brand-new wildcatting company, Glenn McCarthy...