Word: biennials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are several good reasons for supporting a four-year House term. First, the biennial election makes campaigning almost a full-time activity for increasingly overworked Congressmen. In the face of more and more complex duties, most Representatives must also attend to constituents' business, answer their mail, write endless newsletters and press releases, and record messages for local radio and television stations...
...than they have ever gotten before, and as the only group in the city not seriously hurt by the strike. Perhaps even more serious, the Mayor, by demonstrating how successful a strike can be, may have set a new pattern of relations with the TWU which will make a biennial strike a foregone conclusion. Unless the new Mayor learns how to make those nasty political deals pretty damn quick the City Council should get together and throw the bum out. Louis D. Beer...
...backed down, each time at the last minute. Quill and the city's Democratic mayors usually have worked out a cozy deal in advance, compromising between what Quill felt he needed and what the city felt it could afford. Nonetheless, Quill was always allowed to run through his biennial charade, dramatically announcing at the last moment a settlement that had actually been agreed on days earlier. Naturally, no one took too seriously Quill's blustering about a transit strike: people had heard that threat too often...
...barons of organized labor met for their biennial convention-and the tenth anniversary of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger-Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz aptly summarized the challenge confronting the unions in the affluent society. Said he: "Never before has the country faced so clearly the choice that it now faces between moving ahead or settling for what we now have, for leaning back, if you will, and patting our stomachs." For all the well-upholstered abdomens in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, there were signs of change by convention's end last week...
...Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society. G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss read the Birchites out of the party again last week during the biennial Western...