Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laurence Curtis '16, who defeated John L. Saltonstall by nearly 6,000 votes for the 10th District Congress seat, reviewed the campaign measures that kept him in office. "We just did the usual things harder," Curtis said, referring to television, radio, and newspaper publicity...
Against the background of Russian rumblings and from behind closed Government doors came the news that the Administration has dedicated itself to the task of trying to balance the fiscal-1960 budget, which the President will submit to the new Congress in January. It is a goal that might have to be discarded as irrelevant if the U.S. has to use force to preserve the West's outpost of freedom in Berlin. But meanwhile, the aim of combatting inflation and governmental bloat by balancing the budget is highly relevant to a challenge that confronts the U.S. in the middle...
...stay strictly within the budget limits set by tightfisted, hard-minded Budget Director Maurice Stans. The President, who meant to work at enforcing his order, had set himself to one of the toughest jobs of his White House life: a no-holds-barred effort to present to the 86th Congress a balanced budget after a crisis-ridden year in which the U.S. is going about $10 billion into...
Wherever or however the challenge is met, it seems apparent from the statements by the President and the Secretary that they are not ready to meet it properly. The initiative for action therefore falls to the Congress, that Congress of "spenders" and "radicals." Seldom has a legislature been called on to formulate a policy of such scope, but seldom has the need for such a policy been so compelling...
...President cannot realize that inadequate expenditures for development programs are even more wasteful than no expenditure at all, the Congress must. The United States cannot afford to gamble that Russia and China will suddenly collapse or that Khrushchev's ambitious plans will turn into colossal failures. To meet the appeal of Communism's economic successes, we must demonstrate the vitality of a democratic system. Unless the Congress will undertake to plan this demonstration, the free world stands to lose the 900 million people of the uncommitted nations. The West cannot afford such a loss...