Word: controller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Americans must have been saddened by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's failure to reaffirm the principle of separation of church and state when faced by the Roman Catholic bishops' statement on birth control. The bishops have tried to impose a tenet of their faith on both Americans and nations receiving aid from...
...Catholic President faced with a foreign-aid bill that included an artificial birth-control program would be no different from a Protestant President faced with an analogous religious issue. For example: a Methodist with a bill that would provide drinking facilities for the armed forces; a Christian Scientist, in a public health program; a Quaker, in a defense budget. The President can veto a bill that he does not approve, and yet support the bill should it be passed over his veto...
Fiscal responsibility was more than a nostalgic, negative notion with Ike. He saw it as the basis of a positive philosophy of government. Against the background of the New and Fair Deals, with their momentum toward more Government spending and control, Ike's philosophy was as radical as it was conservative. He explained it best in a little-noticed 1959 speech to representatives of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, gathered in Washington to holler it up for continued Government subsidy of rural electrification...
Last week Connecticut's highest court, the Supreme Court of Errors, upheld the birth-control ban for the third time in the past two decades. Before the court was a package of four related test-case suits, brought by Dr. C. Lee Buxton, chairman of the Yale Medical School's obstetrics and gynecology department, and three patients who had medical reasons for wanting to prevent conception. Plaintiff Buxton claimed a right, as a physician, to "practice his profession free from unreasonable restraint." The three patients claimed a right to the benefit of a physician's advice...