Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand that their Congressmen vote wholesale economies, only to be asked if they thought appropriations for Georgia projects should be knocked out. "Oh no," cried one. "We want you to cut the hell out of everybody but us." In San Francisco the Chamber of Commerce issued a resounding call for budget slashes. What about the proposed $45 million federal courthouse in San Francisco? Snapped a Chamber of Commerce official: "We don't consider this pork-barreling in any sense. The new federal building is essential...
...reason for the quick stitching was the old familiar roll call. A whole force of Republicans and Southern Democrats, mindful of heavy cut-that-budget mail, happily hacked away during voice votes, but switched in near panic when they were maneuvered into roll calls. Among the items restored by recorded vote: $50 million for grants to states for sewage-treatment plants. Any Congressman knows that a recorded vote against an important appropriation like that would raise an awful smell back home...
Just 90 minutes before Dwight Eisenhower was due to appear at a conference of Republican women in Washington's Hotel Statler last week, the women's publicity director for the Republican National Committee, Mrs. Anne Wheaton. got a phone call from her old friend, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty. Everything fine? Jim wanted to know. Anne Wheaton said yes. "Then," said the astonished Mrs. Wheaton later, "he asked me if I had a chair handy." Hagerty had a piece of news: the President had decided (thanks to Hagerty's good word) to appoint her associate press secretary...
From a newspaper clipping I learn that a group of alumni has formed a committee whose aim is to cause the University to reconsider its appointment of J. Robert Oppenheias William James Lecturer. The basis of their opposition, so it is reported, is what they call his "highly questionable moral background...
...probe appeared to have political overtones. Some Democrats on the committee said it would center on "tight money" and described it as the answer to President Eisenhower's call earlier this year for a study of monetary and fiscal policies...