Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, by a 47-45 vote, passed and sent to the House the year's weirdest bill: a Democratic-sponsored measure to establish, in prosperous 1959, a federal youth-conservation corps modeled after the New Deal's Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps. Under its terms, some 150,000 males, aged 16 to 21, would eventually serve for terms ranging from six months to two years, receive $60 a month, plus room, board and transportation. The bill had about as much chance of beating a veto as the Washington Senators have of winning the World Series...
...Tallent and Kosseff, the manna-mad citizens of Cabazon soon voted to incorporate their town. The specific purpose of the move was to establish a drive-in draw-poker palace; under California law, only incorporated towns may establish poker parlors. In as Cabazon's mayor went L. D. Tallent-and before long he was also police commissioner, fire commissioner and civil defense commissioner (Kosseff, his usefulness fulfilled, soon sloped back toward Hollywood, later died...
...speech-maker-but he has a way of making himself understood. His battle report from Tarawa was a classic: "Our casualties heavy. Enemy casualties unknown. Situation: we are winning." His view of orders received: "If we can read it, we can do it." When tapped to help establish the Marine Corps' Fiscal Division, he went into isolation for days, emerged with a staff study that impressed everyone. Asked how he did it, he told the story of a sculptor who carved an elephant without ever having seen one: he simply knocked off all the pieces that did not look...
...most aspects of modern life, including military service, voting, movies and TV, mixed gatherings of men and women. They live in self-imposed ghettos, speak only Yiddish since they consider Hebrew sacred and reserved for prayers. Their opposition to Israel rests on two beliefs: 1) only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state, and any human attempt is sacrilegious: 2) the Israeli government is offensive to God for such practices as putting women in military service, secular education...
Last week, answering a press-conference question, Ike admitted that he was working on a reorganization program designed to conserve the President's energies for important statecraft. He killed off talk about the establishment of two additional "vice presidencies"; there is a "constitutional, traditional meaning" for the term Vice President, said he, and it could not be applied to any other job. Ike did not elaborate, but the White House is hard at work on a plan that would establish two "assistants to the President" in appointive posts subject to Senate confirmation, ranking at least with Cabinet members...