Word: sist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion. This is twice as much as the amount outstanding at the end of 1948 and four times the aggregate of life-insurance protection in 1936." This size-up of one of America's biggest businesses came last week from Executive Vice President Claris Adams at the sist annual meeting of the American Life Convention in Chicago. This year, added Adams...
When the vote came, however, Malik was quick to put his newspaper down. Ten of the eleven Council members voted for the investigation. Malik killed it with Russia's sist U.N. veto. Then the U.S. bounced right back with a second proposal: a resolution roundly condemning "the practice of fabricating and disseminating" the germs of untruth. Malik announced that he would veto that...
...insisted that a stout civil-rights plank-including an FEPC-be written into the Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that was as far as civil rights ever got. Southern Democrats in the Sist Congress threatened to filibuster civil rights to death, and had their way. The 82nd Congress is now six months old and the Administration has so far made no effort to revive the issue. Last week Senator Humphrey, seeing that no one else was making a move, dropped into the legislative hopper...
...legislative speed, the 81st had passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation, the $3.1 billion civilian-defense bill, and the excess-profits tax designed to add $3.3 billion to the Government's revenue. In spending for defense, the 82nd would no doubt continue to follow in the Sist's large footsteps...