Word: reconsideration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On July 23, 1959, after two days of confused debate, the Senate voted, 49-42, to recomit the Kennedy-Clark bill to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, with, said Kennedy, "the understanding that we would reconsider the legislation." In the coming session of Congress, the two Senators plan...
President Pusey has several times publicly opposed the "loyalty oath" section of the Act, which requires students requesting loan funds to subscribe to a disclaimer affidavit. He said that the U.S. Senate's failure to take action on Sen. Kennedy's bill to repeal the oath requirement has made the...
In Spain collecting more of what an unfriendly critic once called "Bull in the Afternoon," Novelist Ernest Hemingway took time out from research on a new book to answer an invitation from the Soviet Union's Literary Gazette. Would Papa come to Russia with Ike? "Why should I go...
The Promise. Early last week, on the eve of Erhard's departure for the U.S., Adenauer assured him that no decision on the chancellorship would be taken in his absence. Same day, Adenauer once again promised the Christian Democratic Executive Committee that he would run in the presidential election...
Deputy after Deputy pleaded with Adenauer to reconsider. Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag, said bluntly: "Herr Chancellor, none of your arguments sound convincing." Rasped Adenauer: "If you don't like my decision, you are free to elect another Chancellor."