Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having in Indiana." That...
...YORK, Oct. 15--Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, today criticized National and American League owners in their attitude toward a third major baseball league and said he planned to push anti-trust legislation in the next session of Congress...
Last week, the committee took tentative steps toward disaffiliation, by deciding not to attempt "drastic corrective action" while remaining in NSA. Instead, they moved to consider a report made last summer by M.I.T.'s three-man delegation to the National Student Congress...
Kennedy and Clark are not the only men in Congress willing to fight to have the loyalty affidavit removed from the NDEA. But they need help from the colleges and universities that are directly affected by the Act. They need help to answer such charges as "Hundreds of colleges, including Harvard, have accepted the NDEA," and "Not one student has written in to protest the loyalty oath...
...heavy bidding was welcome news to the Treasury, which had been forced to do most of its borrowing in the very-short-term (less than a year) market because of Congress' stubborn refusal in the last session to remove the 4¼% ceiling on long-term (over five years) bonds. Since June, the Government has financed nearly $16 billion in the short-term market, ballooned interest rates, dried up much of the normally available money supply. The rush for the new issue proved that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson was on the right track when he asked for removal...