Word: sections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman before him, Dwight Eisenhower met with stony stares when he urged Congress to give him the chance for an "item veto," enabling him to slice an objectionable section out of a bill without killing the whole bill with the veto ax. But last week Ike got rid of an obnoxious provision in a bill by what amounted to an item veto. Oldtimers in Congress said they could not recall anything quite like...
...officials to preserve for two years all records of election for federal offices and permit the Justice Department to inspect them, 3) extend the life of the federal Civil Rights Commission for two years beyond its expiration date next month. Earlier the committee (18-13) junked a proposed, tough section that would have empowered the Attorney General to initiate suits to protect civil rights, including the right to attend integrated schools. Also dropped was a section empowering the Federal Government to aid local school authorities with desegregation problems-a section that would have given specific congressional endorsement to the Supreme...
Testing the Fakes. The mass counterfeiting of British money was an audacious Nazi trick with a double purpose: to undermine British currency and to finance Gestapo operations abroad. For special Section 6-F-4 of the Reich Security Office, it proved to be a tough job. It took top German engravers seven months to get a satisfactory plate made (the figure of Britannia gave them particular trouble), and still longer to match the bluish rag paper that the real notes were printed on. Dates and serial numbers were carefully checked against real ones. At last came the test. A Gestapo...
...clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...
...music he makes; what he does with the rest of his life is sometimes too dull for words or too rich for the censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have a ball and save the show...