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...under his eagle eye. Ever since Alexander Hamilton became the first Secretary of the Treasury in 1789 (and regarded himself as second only to the President in importance), the Treasury had been at the center of the nation's high politics. Jackson staked his political career on a showdown battle over fiscal policy, and shuffled Secretaries like poker cards until he got one who agreed with him. And so, embroiled in one vital question or another, the Treasury was at the heart of politics in subsequent administrations; Treasury & tariff, Treasury & greenbacks, Treasury & free silver, Treasury & the gold standard were...
...board of education is not totally unsympathetic about the Myers' little rebellion. Officials offered to let Shelley attend any of three newer schools, but the nearest was more than three traffic-cluttered miles away from their apartment. The Myers said no. Last week the inevitable showdown began. Haled into domestic relations court for violating the compulsory-education law, Attorney Myers outlined his test case. Said he: "We want to determine whether the . . . board . . . has a legal right to force parents to send their children to filthy, insanitary, crumbling schoolhouses that are a physical and mental hazard...
...Seixas victory over McGregor set the stage for a showdown battle between the U.S.'s playing captain and Australia's Frank Sedgman, Wimbledon and U.S. champion and generally considered the world's top amateur. The big match was rained out twice before it finally began this week. Then Sedgman, who relies heavily on his speed afoot, found the wet grass courts slippery going. He found Seixas' booming service and tantalizing drop shots even tougher to handle. Seixas won, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and became the first U.S. player to win the Victorian...
Ohio. In Ohio, many a Democrat considered Democratic Governor Frank J. Lausche too conservative; many a Republican considered Bob Taft's younger brother, Charles P. Taft, too liberal. In the showdown, Democrat Lausche kept his seat, took the state with a majority of more than 300,000-the best showing of any Democratic governorship candidate outside the South...
Bulky Nye Bevan obviously did not think it was time for a showdown. Nye had been expelled by the party once before (in 1939, for peddling Popular Frontism); what's more, he did not have the votes to challenge Attlee. "There is nothing sinister in the Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group...