Word: seaboarders
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...scholarships entitle their holders to spend nine months studying in West Germany at a university of their choice. The student's transportation from any city on the eastern seaboard of the United States to and from the university will be paid by the scholarship. In addition, the student will receive 250 marks per month, or about...
...Senate (which acted on 79 bills): ¶ Passed (56-35), after five weeks and 1,250,000 words of debate, the tidelands bill to grant seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries, sent it back to the House. ¶ Passed, over strong objections by Majority Leader Robert A. Taft, a bill authorizing the Export-Import Bank to write insurance against war damage and seizure on cotton and other American products shipped to friendly countries, sent it to the House. Taft called it "a very unfortunate extension of government in business . . . out of line...
...ailing heart was beginning to hamper his leadership of the marathon-talking Democratic opposition) agreed that it was time to call a halt to the 21-day offshore oil filibuster (TiME, May 4). The Senate quickly approved a plan to vote this week on the Holland bill, which grants seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries. In total, the filibuster: 1) aroused no public outcry against the bill, 2) changed few senatorial minds, 3) changed not at all the Administration's resolve to return control of tidelands to the states, 4) wasted...
...band of liberals," led by Alabama's Hill, New Mexico's Anderson, Minnesota's Humphrey and Illinois' Douglas, had filibustered since April Fools' Day to delay voting on the majority-favored Holland bill, which would grant the seaboard states title to offshore lands within "historic" boundaries. The filibusters still insist that they are not really filibustering, and capital correspondents, who would thunder at the first sign of an old-fashioned Southern filibuster, have gone along with the game by refraining from using the word "filibuster" in their copy...
Ohio thus has little priority in choice for Statehood than is two rivals. Of course, central location is a big factor, for closing the gap between the Atlantic Seaboard and the Pacific frontier has always been an ardent hope for all Americans. But a hasty decision based merely on location may lead to disagreement and possible civil dissentation. Only through the reports of investigating parties can Congress accurately study and legislate the tricky problem of Ohio an Statehood...