Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress, for many reasons, was not about to take such initiative. Republican Leo Allen of Illinois voiced one sentiment: "My chief reason for being opposed to the bill is that it will cost about $2.4 billion."' Another sentiment: the integration-suspicious feelings of North Carolina Democrat Graham Barden: "There must be something influencing this drastic bill other than the construction of school buildings.'' New York Republican Stuyvesant Wainwright (who eventually voted against the bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby...
Cockiness for Caution. Congress' who-cares sentiment toward Ike-the-domestic-leader blossomed during the "hair-curling" Humphrey flap and the budget fight last February, as the White House delayed overlong in taking a firm stand for Administration policies (TIME, April 22). The House, including many a Republican outside the party's Old Guard, happily zeroed in on one of Eisenhower's favorite projects, the U.S. Information Agency, sliced its budget by half. The Senate crippled the Administration farm program (but rallied remarkably when Ike stood and fought for foreign...
...nearby town of Custer, S. Dak. (pop. 3,000), Ziolkowski became a center of controversy. At the Gold Pan Tavern and Flyspeck Billy's along Custer's main street, just four miles from Crazy Horse, sentiment ran high. More than half the town was behind Ziolkowski. but some of the people thought that Crazy Korczak would be a better name for the venture. Financing the work with his own money, contributions and tourist admissions, Ziolkowski has not got on as fast as some of his boosters would like. They persuaded him to seek a federal loan, but when...
...speech at the labor confederation, President Siles Zuazo pleaded, warned and quoted statistics to prove that austerity must stay. But as the workers' congress went on, labor sentiment still favored a general wage hike, with a general strike the alternative...
...Japan, where anti-American sentiment has been fanned by the jurisdictional dispute over another G.I. who is charged with manslaughter, Hokkaido Shimbun said that the riots were "primarily attributable to American racial prejudice and superiority complex." The usually pro-American Mainichi Shimbun exulted: "The incident proves an old saying: 'Even a worm one inch long is one-half inch of spirit.'" In Bangkok the middle-of-the-road daily Satirapharp cautioned: "The incident on Formosa has taught us that we must not let too many Americans come to our country...