Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National G.O.P. leaders, who had once hoped that the unsavory record of labor racketeering would rub off on labor-oriented Democrats, all but gave up trying to hang failure of the Kennedy-Ives labor bill on the Democratic 85th Congress. No less a campaigner than Vice President Nixon warned that the issue would get all mixed up, could easily backlash to brand the G.O.P. as antiunion. Bigwig Democrats meanwhile whistled merrily, predicted a pro-labor vote that would swell the Democratic landslide. Fact was that the labor bossism issue was a sleeper and much of the whistling...
...race in Michigan's Sixth District is a tossup. But in his fight to win, Chuck Chamberlain stands out-perhaps as much as any other beleaguered member of the House-as the hustling, aggressive, inexhaustible, politically tuned embodiment of what it takes to run for re-election to Congress. To begin with, he has a running start because he knows and understands his district through personal identification. He was born on an Ingham County farm, heir to three generations of Ingham County farmers ; he worked as a youth in Lansing's Fisher Body plant; after a four-year...
...point: if Army could prevent an ultimate decision by the President until year's end, it would probably get to keep Redstone for good. Under the law creating the civilian agency to control space operations, NASA cannot take over military facilities after December 31 without express permission from Congress...
...back into the NSA on the same level it has maintained in the last few years. The reason for the apparent lack of benefit derived from it is the obvious minimum of effort Harvard has contributed to it. A Council which sends only two members to the National Student Congress cannot hope to remedy NSA's defects. It cannot hope to be well-informed on the resolutions so hastily passed on the floor of the convention, but so thoroughly debated beforehand. It cannot hope to derive full or even partial benefit from either the discussion programs or the international activities...
...Harvard Young Democratic Club and the Harvard Young Republican Club will sponsor a debate on "Who Should Control the 86th Congress" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room...