Word: amends
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...list would then be sent to "established" producing groups, according to Hayford, which could add or amend the list with the committee's approval. The groups would then nominate the shows they would like to put on from those included in the list...
Follies of Management. While the report came out flatly against the Government subsidy sought by Alpert, it also took a strong stand for tax relief. It suggested that 1) the 10% federal excise tax on fares be repealed, 2) the Federal Government should amend its tax laws to encourage states to give tax relief to the railroads, and 3) ICC should be empowered to rule unlawful any state's taxes on deficit-racked roads when they are excessive compared with those levied by other states (New York State taxes on the New Haven amount to $17,318 a mile...
Many critics, including NATO allies, wanted the matter pinned down; the tiny "real estate," said they, was not worth risking a war. Adlai Stevenson registered -his-'.'greatest misgivings." Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and New York's Herbert Lehman offered a proposal to amend the resolution so as to cut the offshore islands out of the defense perimeter. The amendment was beaten down, 74-13 (Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, both absent, were paired: Kennedy for, Johnson against). In April 1955, Dulles told a press conference that "there is no commitment expressed or implied to defend...
...usual. But even among the whites, opposition to Verwoerd's policies was growing. For the first time, Afrikaner and English-speaking business groups spoke out. Their objection was simple: the disturbances were jeopardizing the economy. Jan Moolman, chairman of the Wool Board, called on the government to "amend their policies -or else." Peter Mosenthal, a textile manufacturer who is president of the Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce, declared: "The time has arrived when organized commerce must speak. The Bantu certainly have legitimate grievances...
...Amend U.S. immigration laws so as to 1) double the overall limit of immigration from quota countries, from the present level of 154,000 a year to 308,000 a year, and 2) base national quotas on the relative numbers that immigrated into the U.S. from various countries over the past 35 years rather than on the makeup of the U.S. population in 1920. The amendments would greatly increase immigration from Asia, Africa and Southern Europe (Japan's quota would rise from 185 to 1,859, Italy's from...