Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Section 638 of this year's $31.8 billion Defense Department appropriations bill, Congress stipulated that the Secretary of Defense must get permission from the Senate and. House Appropriations Committees before he takes the armed forces out of such nonmilitary activities as cake-baking, dry cleaning and coffee-roasting. The section was tacked on to the bill by members of the House and Senate whose districts vare graced with such federal activities, e.g., Leverett Saltonstall. the Senate G.O.P. whip, who was protecting the rope-twisting installation at the Charlestown, Mass, navy yard. President Eisenhower had a hard label...
...President said that he signed the appropriations bill for the sole reason that the Defense Department urgently needed the money. Then in a rare but not unprecedented step,* he announced flatly that the executive branch would pay no attention to the section that it considered invalid...
...editorial writer of the Chicago Tribune spotted that ad under "Personal"' notices in the Tribune's classified ad section last week and seized upon it as the text for a bright little lecture...
...high-Renaissance (16th and 17th century) art. The Kress gifts will correct that weakness as well, if only by the announced addition of three masterpieces, by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese, from the golden age of Venice. Zurbaran's big convent picture will give new weight to the Spanish section, and Watteau's charming Ceres will add a lift to the 18th century French collection...
...Game. In Salt Lake City. Brigham Krause complained to the embarrassed County Commission that the 700-by-50-ft. piece of tax-delinquent property he had bought for $100 turned out to be a section of a county roadway...