Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Randall is expected to take the position that UMT will not be a positive innovation in the national scene, and will neither reduce military expenditures nor strengthen the present system of Selective Service...
...attempt to strengthen the primary system, Senator Smathers of Florida has proposed a Constitutional amendment that would eliminate the convention system of selecting Presidential nominees and substitute direct primaries, to be held the same day in every state. Under the Amendment, each state would have a "nominating vote" equal to the number of Senators and Representatives the state has in Congress. Each candidate would receive in the primary nominating votes proportional to his popular vote in each state. The man with the most votes would be his party's nominee...
President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale said that the Old Dominion Foundation gift would be used to strengthen the General Education program at Yale...
...must strengthen this tradition by making certain that the local control reflects the best thinking of the community," he said. He remarked, "Our vast system of public schools is both an instrument of forwarding American democracy and a concrete manifestation of that idealism which is the essence of the spirit of this republic...
...after years of embarrassing deficits, President James B. Conant appointed a committee of educators and alumni to consider whether the sinking school could be salvaged. Two years later, the committeemen turned in their report. The recommendation: retain and strengthen the Divinity School. Harvard, the report argued, needed to become once more a "strong center of religious learning," capable of making its influence felt both in the U.S. ministry and throughout the university itself...