Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ancestral Party. The South in one sense has lost influence. Democratic Congressmen, who under the seniority rule built one-party security and physical longevity into enduring power on Capitol Hill, have become vulnerable to challenge and defeat. Nor can the survivors rely on each other to vote "right...
...hopes of giving the dissidents a fair hearing at the convention, a group of Democrats led by Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes last week formed the unwieldy sounding Commission of Democratic Selection of Presidential Nominees. Its aims are to campaign for abolition of the unit rule, offer guidelines on seating of disputed delegations, and work to ensure adequate representation for minority groups. Yet Hughes, now running for the Senate, is unhappy with McCarthy as well as Humphrey. Once a confidant of Lyndon Johnson, Hughes fell out with the Administration, largely because of the war, and became a Robert Kennedy...
...Wednesday trading recesses, which will continue at least for the rest of the month, the problem of undelivered securities and accounting confusion remains so severe that two organizations last week took drastic steps to overcome it. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. securities firm, imposed a "house rule" forbidding its salesmen to sell over-the-counter stocks for customers unless they first have physical possession of the certificates involved. The National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade group which polices the over-the-counter market, drafted a similar rule for its 3,700 member firms...
...Under the chairmanship of Dr. Henry K. Beecher, it outlined a series of technical steps to ensure that any flat EEG is really an accurate recording, then added that the tests "shall be repeated at least 24 hours later with no change." On its face, this language appeared to rule out the prompt transplantation of an accident victim's heart, but the committee felt that it was necessary to cover a few special cases. A victim of barbiturate poisoning may recover full brain function after 24 hours, or even longer, in deep coma. But in cases of massive head...
...rule in glory over the mother of cities...