Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bewildered Batonga were further unsettled by the arrival of zoot-suited agitators from the African National Congress who told them the government scheme was merely a plot to steal their ancestral land. When the dam began rising in tHe gorge, the agitators took a different tack, began selling magic tickets to the villagers that guaranteed that the "white man's wall" would be overthrown by the most potent god in Batonga mythology: the mighty Snake of the Zambesi, whose whiskers are the spray of Victoria Falls and whose tail stretches 250 miles to the Kariba gorge...
Colombia security police soon sniffed out the timetable of the plot: in three days, right-wing fanatics and cashiered army officers would rise throughout the country. In Bogota, 2,000 rebels, divided into "death brigades," would shoot up both chambers of Congress and assassinate government leaders, hoping to topple the Conservative-Liberal coalition regime and restore to power former Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who was ousted 18 months...
...ranchers-who paid welfarism's costs-to the citified beneficiaries in Montevideo (pop. 900,000). The leader of the farm revolt was Benito Nardone, 52, a radio personality with a big rural following. Years ago, Montevideo-born Nardone, stevedore, union organizer, newsman and backlands traveling salesman, sat in Congress as a Colorado. He quit in disgust when told to confine himself to drawing his pay and keeping his mouth shut. Taking to the air in 1942, gossipy Benito Nardone set out to woo the farmers, got their rapt attention by giving weather and crop information, advising farm workers...
...know of no time in our country's history when the forces of intelligent conservatism have been in greater danger of obliteration." So said Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield in the major speech before the National Association of Manufacturers' 63rd annual congress. In the kind of rousing talk that N.A.M. members like to hear, Summerfield warned that "America today teeters on the precipice of a labor-bossed Congress." was sure that President Eisenhower will propose legislation to protect workers "from exploitation by unscrupulous and corrupt union bosses." Unless antitrust law principles are applied to the "labor-boss monopoly...
FOREIGN INVESTMENT guarantees, by which Government insures private U.S. investments abroad against expropriation or war (TIME, July 28), are due for big expansion. Administration will ask to boost maximum Government coverage from $500 million to $1 billion; Congress is favorably disposed because program, instead of losing money, actually has put $3,000,000 in Treasury...