Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open Rule. The ringleader was Michigan's Democratic Representative Louis Rabaut, a man with a special grudge. As the head of an appropriations subcommittee on public works for the Eastern U.S., Rabaut had seen his recommendations junked by Cannon, who autocratically rewrote the bill...
Before the supplemental appropriations bill could go to the House floor, it had to pass through the powerful Rules Committee, which was still waiting for a pay raise for its own employees. Since nearly every appropriations bill goes against some House prohibition, e.g., appropriations bills cannot contain substantive legislation, it has long been the custom for the Rules Committee to set terms under which points of order are waived during floor action. But not this time: the Rules Committee coldly sent Clarence Cannon's bill to the House under a wide-open rule, placing it at the mercy...
...approved the government proposal to grant Tunisia internal self-government in gradual stages over the next 20 years. Even the Communists did an unexpected turnabout, tossing their 98 Assembly votes in on the government side and leaving only the extreme right in opposition. The vote: 540 for Tunisian home rule, 43 against...
...Greek language and religion, and feel a far closer kinship with the nearby Greeks than they do with their rulers in distant Great Britain. Bearded Archbishop Makarios has been leading an agitation for enosis (union) with Greece. The 100,000 Turks on the isle prefer British to Greek rule. As for the British, who have made Cyprus their Middle East bastion since evacuating Suez, Churchill's government last year announced that Britain would never leave Cyprus...
...principles of the Revolution, says Luethy. France, in short, has attained "the seventh day of creation" and wants only to keep what it has. Stability, says Luethy, is the Frenchman's great desire-stability that preserves all the innumerable positions of petty local privilege first won as a rule from the all-compassing state, stability that permits the anarchic individualism by which "everyone is allowed his own destiny, and is allowed, to follow it to the end; no man's hand will be raised to stop...