Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend for the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department, and when Attorney General Herbert Brownell resigned in 1957, Rogers, then 44, succeeded him. Rogers was best known for vigorous prosecution of antitrust cases and for his part in drafting the 1957 civil rights bill and pushing it through Congress...
...Cabinet-to-be and their wives met their own vis-avis socially. Then many of the Nixon nominees went to the incumbents' offices for lengthy discussion of their new responsibilities. They came away with fat briefing volumes prepared for them with part of the $900,000 that Congress authorized this year for the first time to cover the expenses of transition from one Administration to another. Be ginning this week, the new Cabinet members will meet one by one with President Johnson...
...want a liberal like Goldberg leading the court. On the other hand, this argument also suggests that Nixon does not want as one of his first official acts the task of withdrawing the nomination. To do so could incur the wrath of Goldberg's Democratic supporters in the Congress, legislators whose cooperation Nixon urgently needs...
...which Novelist Alexander Solzhenitzyn has become the symbol, has prompted a crackdown that is increasingly reminiscent of Stalin's day (see box). The economy is doing well, but not well enough. Last week, as the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met in the Great Kremlin Palace Congress Hall to consider the 1969 budget, the country's chief planner rattled off an impressive list of economic achievements (1968 income up 7.2%, industrial production up 8.3%). The 1,510-odd delegates were visibly unimpressed. Instead, they complained bitterly about the shoddy quality of Soviet housing and the poor reliability...
...Court ruled 6-3 that Congress did not intend in the Selective Service Law of 1967 to deny court appeal to men entitled to exemptions by statute. The law restricted the right of men to go to court to challenge the actions of their draft boards. Divinity students, persons under 19 years of age, military veterans, members of the National Guard and the Reserves, and sole surviving sons are affected by the high court decision...