Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force immediate compliance, said Finch, "would cause chaos, confusion and an education catastrophe" for the school systems involved. The Administration went to a federal district court to get sanctions for the delay. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund fought the local decision up to the Supreme Court. Thus, ironically, the Administration's emphasis on working through the courts-an approach tending to make integration slower and less painful for the South-produced a Supreme Court demand for a faster pace...
...CREDIT AND CAPITAL GAINS. Reaffirming an earlier vote, the committee repealed the 7% tax credit for business investment in machinery and equipment, but maintained the exemptions for the railroads and aircraft industry. Finally, it went beyond the Nixon Administration, but not as far as the House, in taxing the capital gains of upper-income taxpayers. Retaining the six-month period for which assets must be held to qualify for capital-gains exemptions, it denied the use of the 25% tax ceiling on such gains to people earning more than $10,000 in tax-preferred income...
...Taylor said that when he and his friends arrived at the house-where he had not been for many years-they went up the stairs to see the portrait. When he turned the corner he saw the same painting of the same ancestor in the same place-but it was very small. Instead of huge it was moderate say two feet by three feet instead of five feet by seven feet. All those years the painting had been growing and growing in his memory. He knew that nothing in the house had really changed. The confusion arose in his proud...
...Come on now, it hasn't been that long. It was Hayes and Mahoney who went down to Washington and came back to tell you that all your kids in high school now would eventually be working there. That's a joke. You've got to watch out for people who say they have your interests at heart and then push you out. You've got to pay attention to what's going on. You've got to go to the meetings of those experts and you've got to ask them questions; you've got to make them tell...
...brushed off the suggestion, explaining that such an alliance is impossible at the moment because students have very little contact with the people, don't understand them and consequently would not be able to gain their trust. He went on to ask us if we'd had an interesting evening and said he hoped he hadn't kept us away from anything we had planned...