Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little value in local elections-who are appalled at the thought of the Administration's being a deadweight. Only four G.O.P. Senators, Vermont's George Aiken and Ralph Flanders, New York's Jacob Javits, Kansas' Frank Carlson, supported the President's stand on Adams-and they are not candidates...
Gathering forces for a surprise attack on the Administration's stand-pat tax bill last week, Florida's handsome Senator George Smathers found plenty of allies from the South and West. A top Capitol Hill specialist in transportation affairs, Smathers wanted to kill off the $700 million-a-year federal transportation taxes-3% on freight, 10% on passenger tickets, 4½% on pipelined oil, 4? a ton on coal shipments. And the South and West had long been grumbling that the freight tax discriminates unfairly against states far removed from the big-city markets and industrial centers...
...trimming the Senate did. It voted down a flurry of tax-cut proposals, passed the Smathers-nicked Administration bill with nary an audible nay. Ahead this week: a House-Senate conference to decide whether the House, which approved a hold-the-line bill with no exceptions, will stand still for the Smathers amendments...
...luncheon about why bribetaking and influence peddling were so widespread back home (TIME, April 21). Said Carlos Garcia deadpan: "That [corruption] exists in the Philippines I shall not deny. I do not believe there is any head of government anywhere in the world-this country not excepted-who can stand before you and affirm truthfully that his country is immune to this social cancer...
...Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact of the revolt itself, there was almost unanimous condemnation of Moscow. Said one influential Indian in unwonted tribute to a man most Indians regard as a stumbling block to peace: "The Nagy execution obviously justifies the firm stand John Foster Dulles takes against Communism...