Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where will the cuts come from? House committees last week sliced into foreign-aid funds and into the proposed budgets of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Congress thus showed an alarming eagerness to chop hardest at politically vulnerable programs despite their proven value-one in furthering U.S. policy abroad, the others in coping with urgent problems at home. Military spending not directly related to Viet Nam will likely be reduced as well, along with the space program and such public works as highway construction and waterway improvement. The Federal Aviation Agency...
...Congress exempted certain categories from the restraint: Viet Nam, federal-debt service, veterans' benefits, social security, and the Commodity Credit Corporation...
...Hollywood actors have star quality at the polls. Take Gary Merrill (Twelve O'Clock High, All About Eve), for 17 years a Maine resident, who decided to take a crack at what he called "raising a little hell in Congress." Running as a G.O.P. peace candidate in Maine's First Congressional District, Merrill, 52, attacked pollution and poverty, tried everything from sidewalk electioneering in a rocking chair to reading poetry before local Rotary Clubs. Maine's citizens, however, preferred that he keep his hell raising at home. The result: Merrill lost to State Senator Horace Hildreth...
...statute says very clearly that all "citizens of the U.S. shall have the same right, in every state and territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property." Congress, said Justice Potter Stewart, "meant exactly what it said." And it had the power to say so under the 13th Amendment, which, according to an earlier court decision, had enabled the legislature to abolish "all badges and incidents of slavery." In addition, said Stewart, Congress had not indicated any distinction between private and public acts of discrimination. "So long...
Moreover, Harlan could not forget the nation's new open-housing law just passed by Congress. Though it does not start to go into effect until next year, it provides sanctions against those who discriminate in the sale of housing -except for individuals who sell their own property without the aid of a real estate agent, or who rent rooms in a boarding house that they own and live in. That is the legislative will of 1968, said Harlan, and the court should not go beyond it. The majority countered the argument by observing that Congress had carefully noted...