Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jack Kennedy, angry and frustrated by his inability to force through even one pet project, was left empty-handed and-far worse-derided by the Republicans for failure to rally the overwhelming Democratic majorities behind his program. In the last fitful week, two more of Kennedy's cherished bills-the minimum-wage extension and the school aid bill-went down the drain. Kennedy himself was head of the Senate delegation that went to a Senate-House conference committee trying to work out a compromise between his own version of the minimum-wage bill (boosting wages from...
...clear that he will have no truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During the farewells on his departure from the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge received a cable from Rome informing him that...
...movement gathered strength and power, Townsend got into politics with some old cronies. In 1936 he helped found the cryptofascist Union Party, with Gerald L. K. Smith, the pitchman of Huey Long's Share the Wealth program (and later a founder of the America First Party and a convicted subversive in World War II), and Father Charles E. Coughlin, priest-leader of the notorious "social justice" movement. Their presidential candidate, North Dakota's Representative William Lemke, polled a mere 891,000 out of 44,000,000 votes. Later, for refusing to answer a congressional committee, Townsend was sentenced...
...African student scheme under which, last week, arrangements were made to send 150 Congolese youths to Moscow's new Friendship University in the autumn. And at least 1,000 African students have already been installed in schools in Moscow, Kiev, Odessa and Leningrad under the crash program begun three years...
...open competition." The winners would be suitably financed for at least their first year in the U.S., get training specifically geared to their needs back home. As for overall supervision, concluded the Fund, "only the United States Government has the resources to finance promptly and adequately a scholarship program of this magnitude. Without such a program, the United States will have failed to do what it can and should do on behalf of African nations...