Word: coding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refuse to let you make me a class-B citizen," thundered the minority leader. Dirksen was fulminating against an amendment to the proposed ethics code by Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark and New Jersey's Clifford Case, who wished to stiffen the relatively flaccid measure...
Senator Ward said, "There are probably 500 citizens held illegally at Bridge-water and more get committed there every year." (See page 3 for a detailed discussion of the proposed code...
...major respect, the Senate code is firm: it precludes use of campaign funds for personal expenses, a la Dodd. It also requires Senators and Senate employees to list outside interests, property holdings, debts, gifts, etc. But these lists would be filed in sealed envelopes with the U.S. comptroller general, to be made public only by a majority vote of the six-man Committee on Standards and Conduct after charges of improper conduct had been brought and public hearings held...
Caesar's Wife. The House code, on the other hand, was devoted more to extolling virtue than to ensuring it. An outgrowth of general indignation generated by ousted Congressman Adam Clayton Powell's propensity for public sin, it suggests that House members conduct themselves "in a manner which shall reflect creditably" on the House, and that a Representative accept no compensation for using his influence improperly. It called for a review of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, under which no one has been convicted since its passage in 1925. It also asked members to list firms in which...
...first time since Tet, the allies last week swept out on the offensive, launching their largest operation of the war. Code-named "Resolved to Victory," the drive aimed at breaking the ring of three enemy divisions menacing Saigon. It employed more than 50 battalions formed from the U.S. 1st, 9th and 25th Divisions and the South Vietnamese 5th and 25th Divi sions, plus task forces of Vietnamese marines and paratroopers. The nearly 50,000 troops fanned out through a five-province belt around the capital...