Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress welcomed its three new members from the 50th state. In the flip of a silver dollar to decide whether Republican Hiram L. Fong, first man of Chinese ancestry to sit in Congress, or Democrat Oren E. Long would rank as Hawaii's senior Senator, Long called heads and lost. In a draw to determine which would get the long term, Fong won again. Over in the House, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, World War II hero whose right arm was shattered by a German grenade in Italy, took his seat as Hawaii's sole Representative, became the first...
...Mills's decline is that Arkansas (along with Mississippi, Vermont and West Virginia) has declined in population during the 1950s, while the total U.S. population was soaring. In the redistricting that will follow the 1960 census, Arkansas stands to lose two of its six House seats. With the state legislature under his control. Governor Orval Faubus will have the power to redistrict Wilbur Mills right out of the House, so Mills has had to avoid offending Faubus. Bowing to Faubus, Mills has been conspicuously protective toward Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford, outspoken segregationist, who was narrowly elected last November...
...afternoon before he flew to Europe, President Eisenhower thoughtfully drew a State Department policy paper out of the ''urgent study" pile on his desk. Its contents: a report on the Communist guerrilla bands swarming antlike out of Red China's puppet state of North Viet Nam into the Utah-sized nation of Laos (see FOREIGN NEWS). This "very dangerous" situation signaled the revival of full-scale guerrilla warfare in Indo-China for the first time since Red China agreed at Geneva in 1954 to stop it. The President, approving State's recommendations, cranked up machinery...
...Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon: "The achievement of world peace through law is a goal which motivates the conduct of our country's international relations . . . The process of economic development under free institutions cannot take place in chaos or in disorder. It must have the security provided...
Counting the big bites and the small nibbles of last year together, U.S. taxpayers paid $98.3 billion in federal, state and local taxes, the Commerce Department reported last week. That came to $568 for each man, woman and child in the country. Even so, outstanding federal, state and local government debts kept right on climbing, reached the dizzying total of $334 billion-$1,930 for each person...