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...that would establish stricter quotas on imports ranging from steel to strawberries, from textiles to goat meat. If enacted, the bills would set limits on $12 billion worth, or 50%, of total U.S. imports. Liberalized-trade advocates compared the Orderly Trade Act proposal to the restrictive Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in a rebuttal that skillfully invoked diplomacy and the dollar sign, pleaded with the Senate not to "retreat into protectionism...
...alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot, who has alienated the city's minorities by publicly opposing textbooks with added chapters on minority groups' contributions to America...
...Nava defeats Smoot in the May 31 runoff, he will become the first Mexican-American ever to sit on the city school board. That, for the pocho, would be a major step from self-pity toward self-representation...
...Theresa's, a basement bistro deep in the Negro ghetto of Chicago's South Side. On good nights, the scene is lowdown and swinging, too, a few blocks away at Pepper's or Turner's Blue Lounge, or out on the West Side at Smoot's or Silvio's. Indeed, such a wealth and variety of authentic blues abounds in Chicago today that Musicologist Samuel Charters says: "It's the last place left in the country where a living music is still played in local bars and neighborhood clubs. It's what...
...court, where he sued Webster instead of the Birch Society, the angry editor fared better. The defense tried the classic libel defense of truth. McGaw's editorial, the lawyers said, followed the Communist line, just as Webster had charged. Appearing as a star witness, Far-Right Commentator Dan Smoot agreed that the editorial was Communist lining, and the same point was made in a deposition from Martin Dies, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee. But then the defense quoted some words of praise for the John Birch Society from a California Senate subcommittee on un-American...