Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With its five-minute rule and other time-saving parliamentary devices, the House of Representatives is a legislative hare, ordinarily loping far ahead of the tortoise-like Senate and its treasured prerogative of "unlimited debate." But last week, with the finish line near, the tortoise was ahead of the hare...
OHIO. The 58-vote delegation decided against the unit rule, although almost all votes are controlled on the first ballot by Governor Frank Lausche, who will be nominated for President by Gubernatorial Hopeful Mike Di Salle. In a preconvention hedge, Lausche's aides prepared to welcome Harriman campaigners into Ohio this week, listen respectfully to talk about a Harriman-Lausche ticket...
MISSISSIPPI. Despite the stifling heat in Jackson's city auditorium, Governor James Plemon Coleman quickly whipped the state convention into line, eased a Coleman majority into the 44-man unit-rule delegation. He thus headed off the rebels who wanted to make third-party noises before the convention and left himself free to bargain in Chicago for the loosest civil-rights plank...
ARKANSAS. The State Committee picked a 26-vote delegation, immediately imposed a unit rule. Although there are Symington, Harriman and Kefauver admirers among the delegates, Arkansas should go for Stevenson on the first ballot, will campaign for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright for Vice President...
...consequences were the responsibility of the others. In Bonn German Foreign Ministry officials persuaded flinty old West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to be obliging to Nehru, though the Chancellor scorns Nehru's way of thinking. Adenauer even went so far as to break his no-Sunday-engagements rule in order to take Nehru on a cruise up the castled Rhine. They met three times for four hours, and both stubborn men had the honesty not to feign a friendship they did not feel. When newsmen asked the Indian Prime Minister whether he accepted Bonn as the only legitimate German...