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...kill or maim the bill popped up and down like ducks at a sideshow shooting gallery. The Congressman whose proposal did the most harm was New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., political boss of Harlem. He insisted on attaching the old familiar "Powell Amendment," a rider that would withhold federal funds from segregated schools. Powell occasionally manages to tack on his nuisance amendment, sometimes killing a decent bill because Southerners balk. In a bipartisan attempt to save school aid, the Administration offered House Democratic leaders a substitute measure similar to the Democratic bill. They agreed to the substitution...
...foreign aid bill-already passed by the House-made diplomats shudder. Written by Illinois' liberal, pro-Israel Democrat Paul Douglas and endorsed by a gaggle of well-meaning Eastern Senators, the amendment would give President Eisenhower the power, but not the obligation, to withhold all mutual security funds from the United Arab Republic until the Suez Canal would again be open to Israeli shipping. The amendment posed no real threat to mutual security funds or to peace in the Middle East, but it was a sharp needle in the side of Arab nationalism and pride...
WELFARE: "The recipient of welfarism . . . mortgages himself to the federal government. In return for benefits-which, in the majority of cases, he pays for-he concedes to the government the ultimate in political power-the power to grant or withhold from him the necessities of life as the government sees...
...Monsignor Acacio Coussa, Assessor for the Holy Congregation for the Oriental Church; and Monsignor Giuseppe Ferretto, Secretary of the Sacred College. The foreign favorites: Monsignor Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Archbishop of Lima, and Monsignor Jose Newton de Almeida Batista, Archbishop of Brasilia. (The Pope may have decided to withhold Batista's formal elevation until his new archdiocese buildings are dedicated...
...supporters to get the association to reverse itself on a 13-year-old stand. In 1947 the Bar Association went on record opposing the so-called Connally Reservation, pushed through the U.S. Senate in 1946 by Texas' Senator Tom Connally, which reserves to the U.S. the right to withhold any case from the jurisdiction of the World Court in Geneva by calling it a "domestic issue.'' Since domestic disputes are actually exempt from World Court action anyhow, the lawyers knew that the Connally Reservation would serve only to encourage other nations to enact the same kind...