Word: chairmens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committees have already drawn up regulations for their own conduct, but recent abuses and want of good sense and taste have shown the need for uniform authorized rules by Congress as a whole. Senate and House investigations presumably point toward some specific legislation, but with at leas three committee chairmen aiming at, and producing little but headlines, blanket restrictions are overdue...
...most important provision of Javitt's bill calls for a decision by a committee majority on what it shall investigate, and a clear statement of the inquiry's purpose. Under this rule, publicity-seeking chairmen would be curbed by more temperate colleagues who are better able to discriminate between the country's and the committee's best interests...
Committees are indispensable to such an unwieldy group as Congress, but they must always be subject to the wishes of the parent group. Establishment of majority will over chairmen's whims will go far toward bringing many committees back to the point at which their methods, as well as aims, are in tune with the will of Congress...
Britain shoved this problem at the beginning of World War II, when she put all research and development for the services under the direction of civilian scientists. The great universities donated many of their department, chairmen to fill these posts. Military leaders till merely file requests with the chiefs of the scientific bureaus; they have little or no voice in the resulting research...
Solicitors have already co it acted nearly two thirds of the student body, but are 20 percent short of last year's total. The Co-Chairmen attribute this deficiency in part to the new method of collection. No longer able to charge the Conations on their term bills, many students are simply failing to contribute. Although they can pledge their donations if they wish, few are taking advantage of this opportunity...