In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

Accordingly the request was granted, but the Elector himself, who had not been consulted by his mother, rejected the proposal and recalled his agent Schutz, whose impolitic handling of the affair had caused the Hanoverian interest to suffer and had made Oxford's dismissal more likely than ever.

Here, then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of a beginning.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

The breach created by the Selden patent doomed his proposal, but Hanch did not abandon his scheme.

The proposal would have to receive final legislative approval, by two-thirds majorities, before March 1 to be printed on the April 4 ballot, Roberts said.

When the shouting ended, the bill passed, 114 to 4, sending it to the Senate, where a similar proposal is being sponsored by Sen. George Parkhouse of Dallas.

This might be done to arouse those who have been squeezed out by the trims to exert pressure on the Legislature, so it would be more receptive to a tax proposal later in the year.

The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

It is a proposal that justice now be served by means other than those that have ever preconditioned the search for it, or preconditioned more positive means for attaining it, in the past.

Then, in order to prevent Polk from dissipating his forces by implementing his proposal to allow some men to join a partisan group, Johnston ordered him to send Pillow and 5, 000 men to Fort Donelson.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

This proposal, which was understandably appealing to Albert, had already been discussed by some of his relatives ; but it was necessary to proceed cautiously, and he assured Pope Adrian VI that he was anxious to reform the Order and punish the knights who had adopted Lutheran doctrines.

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

The most significant moderate proposal was the Fourteenth Amendment, also written by Trumbull.

To give a schematic scenario by way of illustration: two men have clashed in the assembly about a proposal put by one of them ; it passed, and now the two of them go to court with the loser in the assembly prosecuting both the law and its proposer.

The shift in Aalto's design approach from classicism to modernism is epitomised by the Viipuri Library ( 1927 – 35 ), which went through a transformation from an originally classical competition entry proposal to the completed high-modernist building.

Although Grothendieck himself never published his work in this area, the proposal became the inspiration for work by other mathematicians and the source of the theory of dessins d ' enfants.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

In a secret detailed letter to the Soviet leadership of July 21, 1967, Sakharov explains the need to " take the Americans at their word " and accept their proposal " for a bilateral rejection by the USA and the Soviet Union of the development of antiballistic missile defense ", because otherwise an arms race in this new technology would increase the likelihood of nuclear war.

At the Geneva Conference Eisenhower presented a proposal called " Open Skies to facilitate disarmament, which included plans for Russia and the U. S. to provide mutual access to each other's skies for open surveillance of military infrastructure.

It began as a U. S. Army proposal to place a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year ; however, that proposal was rejected in favor of the U. S. Navy's Project Vanguard.

Prof. W. Kahan was the primary architect behind this proposal, along with his student Jerome Coonen at U. C.

The universal health care proposal pending in the U. S. Congress is called the United States National Health Care Act ( H. R.

* Lincoln ( Northwest state ), proposal for a new U. S. state

* Lincoln ( South state ), proposal for a new U. S. state

The Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, which ( as the Milestone Motor Hotel ) was the first to use the " motel " name, sits incomplete with what is still standing left boarded up and fenced off at the side of U. S. Route 101 ; a 2002 restoration proposal never came to fruition.

The U. S. rejected this proposal and ensued with military operations.

Saddam's proposal further split the Arab world, pitting U. S .- and Western-supported Arab states against the Palestinians.

These included major controversy over the United States ' proposal to allow credit for carbon " sinks " in forests and agricultural lands, satisfying a major proportion of the U. S. emissions reductions in this way ; disagreements over consequences for non-compliance by countries that did not meet their emission reduction targets ; and difficulties in resolving how developing countries could obtain financial assistance to deal with adverse effects of climate change and meet their obligations to plan for measuring and possibly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Harding's Secretary of State, Charles E. Hughes, assumed a primary role in the conference and made the pivotal proposal — the U. S was to reduce its number of warships by 30 if Great Britain decommissioned 19, and Japan 17 ships.

** Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U. S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion.

* March 23 – Strategic Defense Initiative: U. S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.

* Superior ( proposed U. S. state ), an unsuccessful proposal for the upper peninsula of Michigan to form a separate state

The U. S. Earth satellite program began in 1954 as a joint U. S. Army and U. S. Navy proposal, called Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year.

Wright and town citizens renamed the town “ Columbia ” in honor of Christopher Columbus in the hope of influencing the new U. S. Congress to select it as the nation ’ s capital, a plan George Washington favored ; a formal proposal to do so was made in 1789.

Route 4 Parkway was planned in 1946 as a north – south parkway running from Cape May north to Route 6 ( now U. S. Route 46 ) in Clifton, bridging the gap that existed along Route 4 between Rahway and Paterson ; this proposal became Route 444 ( Garden State Parkway ).

The Post editorial positions on foreign policy and economic issues have seen a definitively conservative bent: it steadfastly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, warmed to President George W. Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security, opposed a deadline for U. S. withdrawal from the Iraq War, and advocated free trade agreements, including CAFTA.

However in the subsequent vote on the candidature of ILGA-Europe, the U. S. reversed its position, though the proposal was still defeated, with:

As a groundwork for the proposal I give some attention to the first task enumerated above, the clarification of goal.

Wood took the proposal to Chief of Staff Hugh L. Scott, who passed it on to Baker a month before the actual declaration of war against Germany.

All nine members of the Inter-American Center Authority voted for Goodbody & Company's proposal to finance the long-awaited trade and cultural center.

His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

But when this proposal was made to his Deacon Board, he met unanimous opposition.

At this time of crisis in our Nation's commuter railroads, a new threat to the continued operations of the New York Central has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad's proposal for control of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

On June 6, 1958, General Motors submitted its objections to the Government's proposal.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

He cannot, of course, examine each proposal from scratch.

When this proposal was made, Stalin spoke with stronger emotion than at any other time during the Conference.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

Most manufacturers were now disposed to heed a proposal for the formal interchange of patents.

It was nothing that he said or did, but it seemed so natural to her that she should be working for him, looking forward to his eventual proposal.

A House committee which heard his local option proposal is expected to give it a favorable report, although the resolution faces hard sledding later.

Fifty-three of the 150 representatives immediately joined Grover as co-signers of the proposal.

`` This is a very modest proposal cut to meet absolutely essential needs '', he said, `` and with sufficient ' deductible ' requirements to discourage any malingering or unnecessary overcrowding of our hospitals.