Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folks back home in Iowa will understand." Last week enough mail had flooded Carter's Washington office to make it clear that folks back home did not understand at all. As a consequence, Carter made his maiden House speech, apologized if he had cast reflections on Congress, announced son Steven was taking a pay cut to $6,402. Publicly the House applauded; privately its members were hopping mad. So much bad publicity had been churned up by the Carters that a pending proposal to provide Congressmen with $14,000-a-year administrative assistants was in trouble...
...laid down by the court, and to make recommendations for statutes that would improve the legal fabric of the U.S. Last week the American Bar Association's 246-member House of Delegates reviewed the procession of Supreme Court decisions in internal security cases, sharply recommended that Congress plug the serious loopholes opened up by court's rulings and redefinitions...
...delegates carefully avoided attacking the decisions themselves; in fact, the list of recommendations hailed the Supreme Court and the judiciary as the "ultimate guardians of the Bill of Rights." and disapproved "omnibus proposals" to limit the court's jurisdiction. But pointedly enough, the delegates proceeded to urge Congress...
...Spell out "thoroughly, carefully and precisely" the authority of the House Un-American Activities Committee, to avoid a duplication of the court opinion that reversed the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Labor Organizer John Watkins (TIME, July1...
Although it is merchandised in and out of Congress as a life belt for the ordinary farmer, the U.S.'s inflated farm program (1959 budget: $7 billion) floats its biggest loans and subsidies to the huge corporation farms. Example: Delta & Pine Land Co., a 37,000-acre, English-owned plantation in Mississippi, drew $1,167,502.35 in Government price-support loans on its 1957 cotton crop, $20,761.20 in soil-bank subsidy (now partly abandoned) for not planting riceland. Example: Westlake Farms, Inc., of Stratford, Calif., did a heads-we-win-tails-you-lose business with taxpayer money...