Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...business stories anticipate important front-page news to come. One such was the cover story on Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil Co. of N.J. (March 24, 1947), which explained the corporation's $300 million expansion into Middle Eastern oil as an attempt not only to make money but at the same time to convey the "tangible benefits of free enter prise" to a backward land. Almost two years later the U.S.'s Point Four plan for world recovery was launched to encourage just such tangible benefits as this...
...chamber to cast his vote on one of the most perplexing questions before the 81st Congress: How far should the Federal Government go in guaranteeing the rights of all its citizens? The Senate was about to face a showdown on the Fair Employment Practices bill-the measure which would make the nation's employers liable to fines and possible imprisonment if they were found guilty of discriminating against their workers on account of race or religion...
Neither Daddy nor Mammy. The Senate had approached the matter grudgingly. Majority Leader Scott Lucas, doggedly vowing to make good on Harry Truman's civil rights program, had made FEPC the next order of business, had then let an easygoing Southern filibuster jog along for most of two weeks. The debate had had its high & low points...
...issue of states' rights. "There are honorable Senators who will say that such a law is working very well in certain states." But he was against the government attempting to force moral attitudes upon 150 million citizens. "I myself do not undertake to point out how government can make a man be good or Christian or tolerant because government cannot do so. If government undertakes to do so, it becomes a tyranny...
...Killed three more (making a total of five) of 21 presidential reorganization plans which otherwise would have automatically become law on May 24. The measures: to increase the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture by bringing agencies in his department more closely under his control; to make the chairmen of the Interstate Commerce and the Federal Communications Commissions directly responsible for the commissions' activities...