Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless the Council schedules a special meeting before the end of the school year, the cross country squad must wait until next fall for its case to be taken up. Council Chairman Frank M. White said last night that "today I will talk to coach William McCurdy and see if we can settle the matter. I do not know at present if the Council will meet again...
Health Department opposition, then, seems unjustifiable. The present National Biologics Control Act, which gives the government power over the source of the vaccine, should be expanded or revised to allow temporary control over allocation as well. Do Mrs. Hobby and her department expect to wait until the peak polio season is over before they seek adequate controls...
...Internal Security Subcommittee, Old Reservist Howley attacked not only the' President's position on negotiations with the Chinese Reds but also his exchange of letters with Russia's Georgy Zhukov. Said Howley: "You don't sit down with murderers and discuss business. The longer we wait, the more awful the war will be . . . Defense is no good. It never wins. You can't even win a girl that way. A defensive policy in the long run will destroy the American spirit, among other things...
...second requirement was not so simple: good-conduct clearance from the local town hall. Other braceros, however, provided a tip. Serrano could pester officials and wait-or he could put up a few hundred pesos to bribe the "coyote," a man with unexplained but indisputable pull among town officials. Coyote Raúl Díaz readily confirmed the advice. "You pay," he said, "and you go." Serrano was bewildered and angry. "We are needed," he argued. "We are asked to go. Why should...
...Labor Department officials are deeply concerned, and Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines has been trying hard to get guilty officials fired and jailed. But the bite is an ancient, entrenched custom in Mexico. Serrano, for one, could not wait. With 300 pesos, a big bite out of the savings that must provide for his wife and family while he is away, he paid the coyote. Last week he crossed the border and headed, literally and figuratively, for the lettuce...