Word: stateser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret Servicemen clustered about a big mansion on Washington's ornate Embassy Row one night last week like drones attending the queen bee. Inside, in the rococo, tapestry-hung ballroom of Anderson House, the President of the United States sat beaming before a heap of ten-cent-store toys...
Virginia's self-appointed treasury-guard, Democrat Harry F. Byrd, nagged Taft with quotes from Taft's own statements opposing a similar bill in 1943. Taft frankly said that he had been converted, that he had come to realize that some states could not afford adequate educational standards...
Behind Taft's leadership, the Senate beat back an attempt, by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to tack on an anti-segregation provision, which would have smothered the bill in Southern votes. An effort of Missouri's Republican Forrest Donnell to bar Roman Catholic schools from even...
It would provide $5 for each school-age child (5 to 17) in every state, plus additional funds on a sliding scale for the poorer states, e.g., Mississippi would get the highest allotment, $29.18 for each child. The states could use the funds for any grade-or high-school purpose...
The constitution is to be approved this week by the military governors of the three Western zones. After that the legislatures of the eleven West German states will have to ratify it, the German people hold elections to choose a parliament. Target date for the "Federal Republic of Germany" to...