Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisan decision, congressional Democrats dipped into the narrowly balanced budget to fund the oldest, most obvious form of political spending in federal politics. Cracked White House Press Secretary James Hagerty in a rare reflection of presidential cynicism: "The lure of the pork barrel was a little too much for Congress to avoid...
Last week, rushing toward adjournment, Congress also...
...Exchequer in Labor's last government, was in the awkward position of arguing: "We can do it better." Last week, with unemployment dropping and installment buying at an alltime high, Britain, was riding a wave of prosperity so general that even a delegate to the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool echoed Macmillan's airy slogan, said: "We've never 'ad it so good." According to the Gallup poll, the Tories were 5½ points up on the Socialists, enough to return them with perhaps twice their present 60-seat majority in Parliament...
...party in legally disguised forms, Tom Mboya cut to the heart of the issue with the question: Why was it only Africans who were prohibited from organizing on a colony-wide basis? Said he: "We wait to see what action the government now takes against the Indian Congress, the Moslem League, and the European Convention of Associations...
...Josiah's son and very partial biographer, enthused over the speech: "The effect which his oration produced upon the audience in the Old South Church was long remembered by those who heard it, for the fiery enthusiasm it aroused, and the passionate tears it drew forth." Quincy stood for Congress in the election of 1800, and, like the rest of the Federalists, went down to defeat. Democratic newspapers pointed out that Quincy was only 28 years old and called for a cradle in which to rock...