Word: sidetracks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This unexpected action seems to sidetrack effectively the NCC's minority which was prepared to veto any name change--thus blocking the merger. With a two-thirds majority needed to make the NCC the "Young Conservative Club," it was doubtful if Brady could have succeeded in the merger...
...Billy traveled all over the U.S. and the world, preaching in a different town every day. In 1946, the aging president of a small college (Northwestern Schools in Minneapolis) announced he thought it was God's will that Graham be his successor. Graham, who thought the job would sidetrack him, replied tartly: "If the Lord has called me to do this, why doesn't He tell us both, instead of just...
...very honest individual [who] got mousetrapped in the very rough politics played down here." Of Adams he said tolerantly, at one point: "I wouldn't want to accuse him of perjury . . . John is badly mistaken." Even the McCarthy charge that Stevens and Adams had sought to sidetrack the McCarthy committee investigations of the Army by offering "dirt" on the Air Force and Navy was airily dismissed...
...meeting had been called, he continued, because the Army "had to have advice. That was the purpose of that meeting . . . Now the only reason I issued the order was because I saw . . . that there was going to be a long sidetrack established . . . that had no possible connection with this investigation. Far from me trying to get any investigation off the track, I was merely trying with the timely statement to keep it on the rails ... I want to see this thing settled conclusively ... let the chips fall where they...
Meanwhile, in the Senate yesterday, a move to sidetrack the proposal seemed to be taking shape. Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.) told the Senate that he would try to have the constitutional amendment returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee as soon as possible. If this happens, there may be no action taken on the proposal for the remainder of this congressional session...