Word: 83rd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall, and it was on Bill's broad shoulder that Nixon fell sobbing in Wheeling, W. Va. when Ike declared his running mate guiltless in the campaign-fund uproar. The elections were barely over when Knowland announced that he was a candidate for majority leader of the 83rd Congress against anybody except Styles Bridges, the Senate's senior Republican and one of Knowland's closest Washington friends. By mid-December, it was obvious that Bob Taft also wanted to be majority leader, and a first-class fight appeared to be shaping up. In the end, a slate...
Knowland also had some rough sailing in his relations with the White House. He is proud of his voting record of support (88% in the 83rd Congress, 91% in the 84th) for the Eisenhower Administration, but he has made some of his biggest, blackest headlines breaking with the Administration. Perhaps the low point, in the Administration's eyes, came during the 1954 debate on the Bricker amendment, designed to dilute the President's treaty-making power. Just when Senate leadership was needed most, Knowland abandoned his majority leader's desk, walked to the rear of the Senate...
...favoritism for the rich . . . The Republican 'trickle-down' tax philosophy of Andrew Mellon and the 19205 was resurrected in the 1954 G.O.P. tax bill recommended by the Eisenhower Administration and passed by the G.O.P. 83rd Congress. For every dollar of tax relief to stockholders, the Eisenhower Administration felt we could only 'afford' to give less than a nickel to working mothers, a little over a penny to families with foster children, less than a dime to families with heavy medical expense...
...your head to make your hair grow." He favored one-legged squatting exercises, no alcohol, no steaks (lunch varied from grass tea and pea soup to nuts, beet juice and carrot strips). He pioneered in popularizing bed-boards, enriched flour, scanty swimsuits and sunbathing. He celebrated his 81st, 83rd and 84th birthdays by parachuting from aircraft, getting his brittle, still impressively muscular 5-ft. 6-in. body to earth without injury...
...lasting monument to the 83rd Congress may well prove to be the simple, secluded room in the Capitol that was opened last week. The room's purpose: prayer and meditation. Although sessions of both houses open with prayer, the Capitol has never before had a special prayer room. Three years ago Oklahoma Senator A. S. "Mike" Monroney. an Episcopalian, and Arkansas Representative Brooks Hays, a Baptist, introduced concurrent resolutions to set aside a place where legislators could pray or meditate without distraction.* After Congress finally approved last year, Capitol Architect J. George Stewart selected a small...