Word: limited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bold" housing program, depressed areas bill) that included several items clearly beyond his legislative role and inside the executive area ("breathe life into the newly created space agency," "a consistent policy for Latin America"). He got off to a fast start on a quicker-than-the-eye maneuver to limit slightly the Senate's filibuster Rule 22, hoppered his own civil rights bill as a necessary prerequisite for any ambitious Texan seeking to prove that he is a Westerner, not a Southerner...
Small size (for the most part, 5-10 students) is the one feature common to all of the proposed work-shops. This limit stems from a widely-held conviction that "clearly the most effective way of stimulating awareness and concern, honest scholarship and intellectual zest, is to put the student in close association with a man whose work is an affirmation of these qualities." "Close association" is the key phrase here; it is this circumstance which will, hopefully, "connect freshmen excitement with Faculty excitement." Beyond this one shared starting-point, the various roads to Mecca head off in extremely different...
STATE TAX EXEMPTION for businesses that have no offices or other property in the taxing state was approved by Congress, is virtually certain of President's approval. Bill is designed to limit power of state to tax outside corporations on income earned in state, following U.S. Supreme Court decisions that broadly upheld such a right...
There is plenty of reason for a presidential plea to do something about wheat. The present wheat-support program (75% of parity, with a 55 million-acre limit on planting) is building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...
...phrase "individual capacity" is both the measuring stick and the debating point. Even Southern Rhodesia's liberal ex-Prime Minister Garfield Todd, so reviled by his fellow whites for "pushing the Africans forward," would limit the franchise. After all, it is only eleven years since Britain itself abolished the universities vote, a weighing of the franchise in favor of the educated...