Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Kennedy were disappointed at the Draper committee's accent on arms. And Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, made the best of both worlds by saying that if the Draper committee recommended $400 million more than the President's $3.9 billion, then the least the Congress could do was to get busy and pass the $3.9 billion...
Bayley realizes that students "don't like mudslinging at elections," and hopes, by "creating a new public image," to increase membership to at least 200. Perhaps if the members and officers worried a little less about who became club president, and more about who was elected to Congress and what they were doing, more students would show interest...
Despite the haste and absence of controversy surrounding Congress' recent four-year extension of the draft, critics of the bill have wondered why there has been little pressure from college students to change a system that seems, to them, unimaginative, unfair, and somewhat hypocritical. Assuming that students constitute a group most personally interested in draft legislation, the critics wonder whether lack of information, lack of patriotism, or a sense of fatalism has caused the silent acquiescence with which colleges have greeted the extension...
...thoughts and words were made known in quiet talks with unnerved Congressmen, in one of his toughest-talk press conferences (see below), in a strategically timed call on Congress to provide more foreign aid to U.S. allies, and finally, in a speech drafted for nationwide telecast a few days before the arrival this week of Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...when it expires late this month, India moved toward granting a near monopoly on the supply of foreign news. Agence France Presse got shut out when its Indian outlet, the independent United Press of India (no kin to United Press International), founded in the 1930s by leaders of the Congress freedom movement, collapsed last fall. United Press International, seeking a contract to supply Ramanath Goenka's chain, has been pointedly discouraged by the government...