Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of war and should be considered together. Many of us will refuse to get excited about veterans' benefits until they exceed the yearly interest charges. We will meet the problems of 1985 in that year and not in 1959. It is fortunate that pension legislation rests with Congress and not with TIME or the Administration...
...preliminaries, beaming Lyndon table-hopped through the hall and on through the two tents pitched to handle overflow diners, shook hands, cracked jokes ("You discovered oil here in Pennsylvania, but we get all the blame"). Boss Lawrence courteously introduced his guest as "the man who guided through the Congress the programs upon which the Democratic Party rests its case wfth the people...
...President said he will ask Congress to authorize the huge project--a machine two miles long, the largest of its kind ever to be built. Construction would take six years...
There is a growing feeling at Treasury and at the Federal Reserve Board that the 4¼% limit will have to be raised by Congress, even though economists and businessmen worry that raising the rate would cause a general rise in long-term rates and tighten money enough to choke off gains in business. Finding a solution to the Treasury's problems cannot wait much longer. In July the Treasury will have to borrow additional billions. A sudden sharp contraction in the stock market might conceivably cause a shift back into bonds, but nobody regards that as a real...
Died. James G. Polk, 62, Democratic Congressman from Ohio's sixth district (1931-40, and since 1949), who described himself in the Congressional Directory as "one of the few members of Congress whose sole occupation is farming"; of cancer; in Washington...