Word: 84th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preparation for the grueling affair, Chrisman entered the Brighton Read Race and finished 40th in a strong field of more than 100. Pates placed 84th in the 10 1/2 mile Cathedral Run in South Boston...
During this session, while the 84th Congress has been deliberating on the state of the U.S.. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith has been seen on Edward R. Murrow's television program as she traipsed around the globe-e.g., to Formosa, India, Spain. A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity...
...become the Democrats' biggest political issue in the 84th Congress. In the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn managed to push through a $20-a-person cut, despite opposition by the Eisenhower Administration. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson knew that he could not get the flat $20 cut through the Senate, so he designed a tax bill that was a politician's dream: it seemed to help the little fellow, to hurt the bigger fellow, and to help balance the budget. Nevertheless, the Senate last week voted down Johnson's dream...
...first session of the U.S. Congress, in 1789, the members of the House and Senate set their own pay at $6 for each day they were present. Since then, from time to time, Congressmen have nudged the figure upward. Last week the 84th Congress, armed with the recommendations of a citizens' commission, gave itself a raise of 50%, from $15,000 to $22,500 a year...
Washington finds the two Senators from Oregon fascinating, but doesn't know quite what to make of them. Neither is likely to have much real effect on the 84th Congress, yet each is almost certain to make headlines. The two share a peculiar position in midcentury political history: if Morse had taken his own advice of a few years ago and remained loyal to his party, the Republicans would control the Senate; if 1,500 fewer Oregonians had voted for Neuberger, the G.O.P. could have organized the Senate in spite of Wayne Morse...