Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, out of the pocket of Rhode Island Democrat Aime Forand came another proposal hastily whipped up by his fellow Democrats on the committee. The new draft served as a practical demonstration of the poles-apart recession philosophies of the Eisenhower Administration and many congressional Democrats. The Democratic proposal extended the expiration period to 24 months, beginning last June, when the recession was a pup. It provided a flat 16 weeks of federal payments, regardless of state compensation laws. It specified that the states need not repay the Federal Government. And to it, committee Democrats added a special fancy fillip...
...Bruins were shutout twice last week, by Yale and by Army, and they fashioned only three hits in edging Rhode Island State by a 3-2 score on Monday. So far this season their team batting-average stands at something like.091--a statistic which recently moved coach Lefty Lefebvre to observe: "We aren't hitting...
...journalists," "master of the once-over-lightly." Gunther brushed off Venezuela in 24 hours while researching Inside Latin America, skipped the Ivory Coast entirely on his Inside Africa trip. At the start of his 17 months on the road for Inside U.S.A., Gunther himself recalls, he sped out of Rhode Island in horror after realizing suddenly that he had spent "eight whole days" on his first and smallest state...
...want to scare advertisers' "... The story upon which the headline was based, and which apparently was not read by your compiler of headlines, was an ironic one, and so was the head. The jobs referred to were four in number, at the Rhode Island Development Council, at salaries ranging from...
Dutifully, Airman Norstad presented his case to Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, 90, chairman of the once-great committee, and to New Jersey Republican H. Alexander Smith, 78. Norstad had hoped that his prepared statement would draw some penetrating questions about the job military aid does in building NATO and protecting Western Europe. Instead, weary old Alex Smith asked him what "SACLANT" meant. Norstad patiently explained that it meant, as it had for six years, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. When Smith started to ask other questions, Green cut him off: "It is undesirable to have...