Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year later in Bogota, Colombia, Castro was involved in a student congress which had a core of well-organized Communists. The congress issued a protest against American policies. There can be no doubt that Castro then had anti-American, if not Communist sentiments...
Senator Harrison Williams suggested the other night that the record of the first session of the eighty-sixth Congress was as liberal as could be expected in a society dominated by complacency with the present...
...July 23, 1959, after two days of confused debate, the Senate voted, 49-42, to recomit the Kennedy-Clark bill to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, with, said Kennedy, "the understanding that we would reconsider the legislation." In the coming session of Congress, the two Senators plan a change in tactics as they again "press for the enactment" of their bill. "It may be necessary to separate consideration" of the loyalty affidavit and the disclaimer affidavit, Kennedy indicated, for "there is much wider support for the deletion" of the latter...
...result the 86th Congress in its first session was faced with "a complacent country that doesn't care and a President who is afraid we'll go broke if we get decent urban renewal, adequate school facilities," and up-to-date public works, Harrison A. Williams, Jr., told the gathering of about 75 students and guests in the Lamont Forum Room...
Earl G. Latham '30, visiting professor of Government, in a brief talk preceding Williams' address, questioned whether Congress had provided the decisive liberal leadership which was predicted when a large margin of Democrats was elected in 1958. Williams later held that the constant complaint of "inflation" put a damper on everything the Congress sought...