Word: wiley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NBCTV) stars Cinemactor Eddie Albert and tries to recapture the easygoing mood of the old Garroway at Large show. But the pace is slow rather than relaxed, and Eddie Albert's folksy chatter merely gets in the way of such guest performers as Torch Singer Lee Wiley, Trumpeter Louis...
...treaty. Earnest Lawyer Bricker argues that his amendment would plug "a dangerous constitutional loophole." Members of President Eisenhower's Cabinet argue that it would "damage [the] balance of power" between Congress and the President and "completely hamstring" the conduct of foreign relations, and Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley calls the amendment "the most dangerous thing that has ever been brought before Congress." But 44 other Republican Senators (and 19 Democratic Senators) agreed to cosponsor the Bricker Amendment. Several state bar associations have endorsed it, but the New York State Bar Association denounces it as "unnecessary, unwise, divisive...
...announced pro-U.N. policies. The British have long resented the fact that the U.S. did not invite them into its Pacific alliances, and thought Taft's proposal was a step forward-for Taft. Two ranking Administration foreign policy leaders in the Senate, Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley and New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith, liked the idea too, and promptly said so. Almost as a dutiful postscript, Wiley added that the whole treaty network, like NATO, should be undertaken under the U.N. charter...
Four months ago, Wisconsin's G.O.P. Senator Alexander Wiley sponsored a seaway bill which eliminated some of the earlier objections: it asks only $100 million, calls only for construction (in conjunction with Canada) of new locks and a deeper (27-ft.) ship canal, and temporarily abandons plans for deepening Great Lakes channels to take shipping beyond Toledo. The hydroelectric project is left to the State of New York and the Canadian province of Ontario, both of which have already signified their willingness to take it over...
...Wiley Bill will be debated in a new climate of urgency: a deep seaway would furnish the only submarine-free route for transportation of Labrador iron ore in case of'a war, and Canada has threatened to build it all by herself if the U.S. shillyshallies much longer. Last week the Eisenhower Administration used a new administrative device to demonstrate its backing of the seaway: by formal action, the whole Cabinet unanimously recommended that the U.S. put its weight behind the seaway project...