Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most embarrassing arose from Connecticut Democrat Abe Ribicoff's proposal that parents be permitted tax credits up to $325 a year for each child's college expenses. Torn between a longtime liberal advocacy of all-out aid to education and his loyalty to the Administration, Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey finally voted against this amendment-even though he had previously been one of its cosponsors. The college credit lost...
That was an interesting point. For years past, the Southern delegations to Congress have been about as cohesive a group as exists on Capitol Hill. In the House, each state has its own whip, charged with seeing to it that members are present to vote on issues of regional interest-like civil rights. Presiding over all these state whips is Southern Whip Tom Abernathy of Mississippi...
...torrid comeback by the Crimson basketball team Saturday fizzled in the final 40 seconds of play and enabled a smooth Pennsylvania quintet to whip Harvard...
...drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp. Charles Munch, God bless him, conducted...
Fearing that they might permanently alienate Young loyalists, the Glenn men never pushed for an outright endorsement for their candidate. Instead, Richard Christiansen, Democratic minority whip in the Ohio House, rose on the convention floor to challenge a committee report calling for endorsement of a single candidate. "When we have two great Americans seeking election as Senator, we should not endorse one to the exclusion of the other," he cried. In a roll call taken amid tumultuous shouting, the convention voted 343 to 328 against endorsing any candidate. That amounted to a victory for Glenn, and his backers swiftly moved...