Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Hechler seeks is revival of the bill that President Johnson submitted to Congress last September, which died without so much as a committee hearing. If adopted, the measure would replace a toothless law enacted in 1952. It would...
...discuss the situation. And even the lethargic mine workers' union shows signs of consciousness. Said U.M.W. Safety Director Lewis Evans, "Something real must come out of this situation, and something real must be done for our people." The U.M.W., he vows, will push for safety-reform legislation when Congress convenes in January...
...plight of a helpless proletarian, he described the then prevalent filth and brutality of the industry in shockingly graphic terms. The Jungle, turned down by five publishers before Doubleday, Page & Co. accepted it, was front-page news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory federal meat inspection. Said Sinclair: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach...
...Union. A lifelong revolutionary who was first jailed by the French in 1950 for leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo, and at a congress of the Women's Union of France in Paris earlier this year. Trim and articulate, her black hair swept back, Madame Binh has skillfully smiled her way through receptions and carefully stuck to the N.L.F. line when confronted by curious Western newsmen who hang on her every move...
Practical Step. The unrest stemmed in large part from Nasser's failure to deliver on his pledge of national rebirth, proclaimed just after similar rioting in February. His new National Congress has done little but issue loud exhortations for Egypt to mobilize, which is what it was set up to plan, and a Central Committee of 150 men has likewise spent most of its time in talk...