Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the tactics of Communists and of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten," the left-wing leaders refused to answer. In the now familiar pattern, they tried to 'turn the witness chair into a soapbox, hurled accusations at the Congressmen, and got themselves thrown...
...After heated debate, in which big city Congressmen fought their colleagues from the farm areas, the House repealed the 46-year-old tax on: 1. Soy bean mash. 2. Oleomargarine. 3. Sugar beets...
Long Lyndon Johnson, one of Texas' most ebullient Congressmen, had introduced the first new gimmick in Texas politics* since the hillbilly band and the free barbecue. Leapfrogging all over the state in his helicopter, he hoped to make a three-point landing in the seat which "Pappy" O'Daniel, the demagogue from Fort Worth, would vacate next January...
...would become a member of the U.N.'s World Health Organization, after all. But the lawmakers wanted to make sure that the U.S. would not also catch a bad case of socialized medicine. To many Congressmen the key provision of the bill passed last week is the requirement that the U.S. representative on WHO's executive board must have "spent at least three years in active practice* as a physician or surgeon." The House wanted to make it ten years; that would have barred most of the experts who have spent their lives in the U.S. Public Health...
...three-year provision seems to rule out Dr. Thomas Parran, former PHS Surgeon General (TIME, Feb. 23), who had been considered a likely choice. Dr. Parran has been careful in his public statements, but Congressmen have accused him of using "extraordinary executive pressure" to stir up public demand for socialized medicine. Except for a six-year term as New York State health commissioner, Dr. Parran, graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, has served in the PHS ever since he finished a one-year internship in 1916. One PHS man cracked of the new bill: "Well, they didn...