Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the beginning. With the rise of political parties in the 1790s, it became an undemocratic anachronism by which three candidates who had run second in the popular election actually became President.* While Congress has considered dozens of proposals for reform, the system has remained basically intact since the Twelfth Amendment, ratified in 1804, prescribed separate electoral votes for President and Vice President...
Johnson asked for a twelfth Cabinet-level agency: a Department of Transportation. The new department, he said, could bring "efficiency and frugality" to the 35 different U.S. agencies that spend $5 billion a year working on various facets of travel and transportation. A possible choice to head it: Alan S. Boyd, now Commerce Under Secretary for Transportation. Johnson reiterated his plea for home rule in the District of Columbia, a measure that was beaten in the House last year, promised to "streamline" the Executive branch and "restructure" civil service in the top grades. And he proposed a "commission...
...TIME cover, June 4), heated up the industry 15 months ago by moving into Wheeling Steel, the nation's twelfth largest steel company. In abrupt Simon fashion, he forced five directors off the board, tossed out the chairman-president, charging mismanagement, installed his own chief executive. Wheeling has since rubbed the steel establishment the wrong way by dropping out of industrywide wage negotiations and by giving customers when-they-order guarantees against price increases before delivery...
...Harvard six, always at its best this year against tough opponents, could sense an upset now. Eric Rosenberger took a pass from Pete Miller after four minutes of the final period, and the red light went on for the twelfth time as Rosenberger tied the score...
...Argonne contracts multiplied, Mickelson taught friends and neighborhood housewives how to make the tiny (one-twelfth inch wide) cores, and private companies began buying them...