Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is a "constitutional, traditional meaning" for the term Vice President, said he, and it could not be applied to any other job. Ike did not elaborate, but the White House is hard at work on a plan that would establish two "assistants to the President" in appointive posts subject to Senate confirmation, ranking at least with Cabinet members. One would specialize in foreign affairs, the other in domestic affairs. In helping the President with day-to-day affairs, they would be more important than the Vice President, who is constitutionally required only to preside over the Senate. Where assistants...
...last Jan. i, the Communists and the 26th of July movement have been in
close cooperation." Most newsmen agreed.
Most significant in the move to new ground, said the Labor Department, is the 500,000 jump in nonagricultural employment to the 60 million mark for the first time. Since agricultural employment is more subject to seasonal variances, the nonagricultural gain indicates a broad base of strength that is likely to increase. In addition to a steady employment increase, the Labor Department expects the rate of unemployment (which stayed steady in June because of the seasonal influx of students and June graduates) to drop to around 2,500,000 by October, between 3.5% and 4% of the work force...
...painless school integration by removing seats from classroom desks-on the theory that white Southerners think nothing of associating with Negroes when they are standing in elevators, supermarket queues, and the like. In the second collection, there is more blandness than bite, although Golden does return to the subject of segregation: "Free of charge, I offered the $64,000 people an idea to help get an additional ten million viewers in the South: Ask the questions they ask Negroes in Mississippi to qualify them as voters. They're interesting questions, like, How many bubbles in a pound of soap...
...Pennsylvania. It is the work of a minor Swiss artist named Pierre Eugène du Simitière, who settled in Philadelphia and became Jefferson's friend. Paul Sifton, an American scholar and Du Simitière expert, last week showed evidence that the picture's subject is really Jefferson, done from life at 33 at the time of the Declaration of Independence...