Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest rates to stem the flow of gold to countries where rates are more attractive. The two goals are "contradictory," Kennedy admitted, and achieving them would require all the wizardry of Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Democratic Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. Kennedy went on to speak of a long-overdue tax reform to come, hinting that the Administration would strive to liberalize depreciation rates and to plug tax loopholes...
...Rayburn's predecessors as Speaker, notably Maine Republican Thomas Reed in the 1890s and Illinois Republican Joseph Cannon in the 1900s, were autocrats who ruled over the House like absolute monarchs. Sam Rayburn, though he exudes an authority that some times makes junior Congressmen quail when he speaks gruffly, has operated in the style of Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, trying to get his way through persuasion and leadership. He has been called "the greatest compromiser since the Great Compromiser." To all new Democratic Congressmen he recites two rules: 1) "To get along, go along," and 2) "Be reasonable...
...legislation. In the 86th Congress, the members introduced a total of 15,506 bills and resolutions, and the Senate passed an additional 957 measures that the House had to act on before they could become law. Under the "general rules" of the House, each member has a right to speak for one hour on every bill that comes to the floor...
...Barry Goldwater will speak at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium tonight at 8 p.m. The lecture, sponsored by the Lecture Series Committee of M.I.T., is on "Problems of Conservatism...
...attributed. But objectivity does not require indifference, and attribution is unnecessary if the writer knows that he is saying is true. A newspaper is a citizen, and it should be an interested, outspoken one. It is better to be a William Loeb in Manchester, N. H., and to speak out often and be wrong often, than never to speak out and thus never to be wrong...