Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intend, on an appropriate occasion," the President promised Democrat Humphrey, "to restate to the Congress my support for the elimination of this reservation. Elimination of this automatic reservation from our own declaration accepting compulsory jurisdiction would place the U.S. in a better position to urge other countries to agree to wider jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice...
...Hungarian Communist party leader lashed out at the United States in opening the party's first Congress since the 1956 uprising...
Eighteen members of the HYDC gathered last night to hear House majority leader John W. McCormack (D, Mass.) tell of his 31 years in Congress...
...talking philosophically," charged that the policies of the Republican Party are made by men behind the scenes who do not run for election. Attacking Madison Avenue, the Republican press, and the "broken promises of the present Administration," he asserted that the great majority of Republicans in the halls of Congress oppose progressive legislation...
Asked about the National Defense Education Act, he asserted that Boston University's stand was "wiser' than Harvards outright rejection of government funds. B.U. has permitted students to participate in the loan program for one more year, "giving Congress a chance to work things out," he said. McCormack evaded questions concerning the fate of any bill in the next Congress which called for repeal of the loyalty affidavit requirement...