Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dangers of the Amendment. Alarmed at the prospect of reform-by-treaty, or revolution-by-treaty, a Seattle lawyer named Frank E. Holman, then president of the American Bar Association, set out five years ago on a crusade to save the Constitution by amending its treaty-power provisions. Among the allies he enlisted was Senator Bricker, who introduced his now-famed resolution in September 1951, and reintroduced it in the first days of the 83rd Congress...
...opposition party within the commission. To Dissenter Strauss, more than any other man, the U.S. owes its possession of the hydrogen bomb. In 1950, after a long fight against the combined forces of prestige-heavy atomic scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and all other Atomic Energy commissioners save Gordon Dean, Strauss persuaded Harry Truman that the U.S. should proceed with construction of the H-bomb...
...principle of unity cannot work without sacrifice. No man can do precisely what he wants. The youth of America did not do what they wanted . . . They went because, at a dark hour, you invoked the sacred principle of free world unity to save your country from overwhelming disaster. Of those 1,000,000 American boys who have gone to your land. 24,000 died, another 110,000 were wounded. The cost to us in money is counted in the tens of billions of dollars. That was part of the price we paid for loyalty to the principle of unity when...
...many a pretty lady's maid has succumbed to such seductive boleros as Even If You Kill Me, I Love You. Says Hurdy-Gurdy Man Angeles Reyes: "My cilindro gives me food, pulque and love." The tourist bureaus, hotelkeepers and the poor all agree that motorized Mexico must save a place for the strolling cilindrero if the country is to keep its soul...
Died. Willis Smith, 65, freshman Democratic Senator from North Carolina; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. In 1950, entering a four-way primary race for the U.S. Senate, Corporation Lawyer Smith waged a bitter campaign against the incumbent, Fair Dealer Frank P. Graham, "to save America from the social planners and plotters," won an upset by 20,000 votes. In Washington, Newcomer Smith became an investigator on the Senate Judiciary Committee...