Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next fiscal year. Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith, Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills would all help bring those programs to life. The dew of innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like pie in the sky, and Lyndon Johnson was gone clean out of this world. But the U.S. will probably keep on at a straight, steady pace -in large part because of the five powerful men who love the U.S. House...
...Biggest House Democratic majority in the 20th century: 331 Democrats, 89 Republicans, in the New Deal 75th Congress...
...himself put it, so the two Presidents had little official business to transact. That night Ike gave a white-tie dinner for the visitors at the White House, met with Frondizi two days later to chat about U.S.Argentine relations. Frondizi, through an interpreter, firmly told a joint session of Congress that the U.S. should fight the threat of economic chaos in Latin America as positively as it would counter an attack "from an extracontinental power." In between engagements he calmly kept in touch with simmering trouble at home (see HEMISPHERE...
Paging the President. One of the loudest was Pennsylvania's tariff-championing Congressman Richard M. Simpson, whose key advice to candidates as congressional campaign chairman last fall had been to ignore the White House. Pressed to get back to his work in Congress, Simpson arranged to get on the program right after the delegates heard a message from...
From the far corners of the globe this week the elite of the Marxist world converged on Moscow for the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. Red China's Chou En-lai arrived by plane, leaving Mao and the rest of the Chinese leadership behind, obviously preoccupied. In Chou's wake moved lesser lights, ranging from East Germany's Walter Ulbricht down to James Jackson, the U.S. Communist Party's secretary for Southern and Negro affairs...