Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast and vital field of federal-state relationships would challenge a dozen "Pat" Manions-but has not been given the full-time attention of even one. Manion has been busy with other things; his proud boast is that he has spoken for the Bricker amendment in all the 48 states. Meanwhile, his commission has languished. Of 78 federal grant-in-aid programs that Manion himself believes should be studied, work has started on only three. With the commission's report due March i, an extension of time must be requested...
...Vital Statistics: Born Oct. 11, 1897, in Monroe, Wis., one of six sons in a family with strong Navy leanings. Father Clarence Twining was a well-to-do banker, Uncle Nathan Twining a rear admiral and (in World War I) chief of staff to Admiral William S. Sims (but Uncle La Verne Twining, a Los Angeles mathematics teacher, built his own airplane in 1908, launched it from a barn roof, crashed and broke...
Unfettered by American protests, Spain insists that modern armaments have made British fortifications on the bastion useless. Yet NATO experts regard the underground defenses of the Rock as secure as man can devise, and consider Gibraltar a vital point in the regulation of trade and supply routes to the Mediterranean. Solely on the basis of defense policy, the British have good reason to keep a tight grip on Gibraltar...
Each deartiment and every division of the University has a vital program of its own, but each of them. I have discovered rather sadly, has extensive present responsibilities which tax, if they do not go beyond, its available resources, and each also has prospective needs arising from commendable ambitions which reach far beyond that. I should like to single out three of the professional schools for special mention...
This budget carries out the policy of this Administration to move toward reduced taxes and reduced Government spending as rapidly as our national security and well-being will permit . . . Government must play a -vital role in maintaining economic growth and stability. But I believe that our development, since the early days of the Republic, has been based on the fact that we left a great share of our national income to be used by a provident people with a will to venture. Their actions have stimulated the American genius for creative initiative and thus multiplied our productivity...