Word: strengthening
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...Congress. Eisenhower would dilute the politically entrenched power of Congress and strengthen the Executive by limiting Senators to two terms of six years each and House members to three terms of four years each. The scheme would modify the congressional committee system which promotes members according to seniority and often assures a single Congressman tight control over a crucial committee for years...
...brain child of a Miami chiropractor, Jerome Harold, 36, now secretary of "the Committee to Warn of the Arrival of Communist Merchandise on the Local Business Scene." Harold organized TCTWOTAOCMOTLBS more than a year ago. "It doesn't make sense to me." says he, "that we should strengthen countries whose leaders have sworn to bury us by buying their products." Actually, the U.S. last year imported $84.6 million in Communist-made goods, but exported $133.4 million in U.S. merchandise to those countries. The U.S. State Department, moreover, condones such trade, argues that it can be used as a wedge...
Harvard is one of the six universities to share in the $1 million grant designed to strengthen Latin American studies in the United States. The other schools were Columbia, Texas, Minnesota, California (Berkeley), and U.C.L.A...
After six years of fighting a hostile Democratic machine, Endicott Peabody has won a high elective office in the Commonwealth. He brings to the Governorship ambitious plans for reforming many of the archaic, corrupt practices of Massachusetts government. Peabody has proposed constitutional reforms which would strengthen the authority of a woefully impotent executive, reduce the workload of an overburdened legislature, and strike at corruption in Massachusetts by ending the confusion which surrounds much activity on Beacon Hill...
William S. Barnes, Chairman of the University Committee on Inter American Affairs, announced that the University has received a $150,000 grant to strengthen Latin American Studies in the University. The grant was part of a $1 million grant allotted by the Ford Foundation to six American Universities. The first allotment of the grant will begin in 1963, and will extend over a three year period. The money will be used primarily to enhance a faculty exchange program with Latin American Universities...