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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would provide $5 for each school-age child (5 to 17) in every state, plus additional funds on a sliding scale for the poorer states, e.g., Mississippi would get the highest allotment, $29.18 for each child. The states could use the funds for any grade-or high-school purpose, including building improvements or teachers' salaries. Last year Republican leadership in the House killed a similar Senate bill. But if the House Republicans were listening to Taft, the measure would have a lot less trouble this time...
...bill was a lost cause, he and his aides had cooked up five compromises which they hoped would attract votes. The provisions, with a few minor changes, were lifted from the Taft-Hartley Act itself. The most important of them was the one giving the President authority to use the weapon of injunction in national-emergency strikes...
Medina sent the jury out, then explained: if the books taught methods of carrying out a violent revolution and if they were actually used to instruct revolutionists, then it was not the books that were on trial but the men who put them to use...
...with power, but in such a way that all motion other than forward and in a straight line is eliminated. it is this process that takes months of training, as well as natural ability. Any number of things can go wrong during a stroke, because every pull involves the use of the entire body in a precise sequence that must not vary if that all-important smoothness is to be maintained...
...coach follows his shells back and forth noting faults and weaknesses, and pointing them out with the use of a megaphone. As the opening race approaches. Belles reduces the amount of instruction and lets the crew find its own place and style. Therein lies another reason for Bolles' greatness: he is never a tyrant on form. He allows his oarsmen to retain their own quirks of style rather than insisting on uniformity at the expense of power and smoothness...