Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known, through Hagerty, that he "will continue to urge the Congress" to pass a school-aid bill, despite the bill's resounding defeat last week (see below...
...build 300,000 desperately needed schoolrooms in the next four years. At the heart of the trouble was 1) the deep split among Southern and Northern Democrats over the race issue, 2) the basic opposition of conservative Republicans to the principle of federal aid to schools. Result: a crushing defeat for the bill...
...Trigger. Trigger of defeat was the amendment by Manhattan Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to deny federal funds to school districts until they have complied with the Supreme Court's desegregation decision. The amendment brought roars of anger from Southern Democrats. Shouted Louisiana Democrat George Long: "Louisiana is not going to integrate. I do not care what kind of a law you pass here." It also brought some reasoned statesmanship. Chicago Democrat William L. Dawson, like Powell a Negro, took his own stand against the amendment. Said he sadly: "I would not deny to the children in all states...
...Stephen's parochial school to get all the education they could. Their clothes were patched but clean. At St. Stephen's, David was a top student in his class. He sang soprano in the boys' choir, tried to master the violin but admitted defeat. After parochial school he went to Holy Cross High School for a two-year commercial course, walked the three miles between home and school to save carfare...
...this fact, the novel The Long View might be a work of art. Its theme-the defeat of the ingrown English middle class-has been needleworked by such skilled knitters and tatters as Ivy (Men and Wives) Compton-Burnett and Elizabeth (The House in Paris) Bowen. The Long View knits up the raveled sleeve of middle-class tweed. As in the work of her greater exemplars, Author Howard shows the old, secure, middle-class family house to be falling, and her characters speak in those elliptical, strained asides of snooty English people who would rather drop a friend than...