Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense, McCarthy's investigation condemns his own branch of the Government. For when the Voice asked five hundred million dollars for its work, those Congressmen of vision who call themselves the economy bloc gave it seventy-five. With this piddle, the Voice was supposed to counter effectively the multi-billion dollar Russian propaganda machine. Starved for workers and pinched for funds, it is little wonder the Voice hired a number of incompetents and several questionables. Such are the fruits of economy. Now the economy bloe, with which McCarthy voted, castigates the Voice of its failure to match the Russians. Such...
...Mamie continued to resist the blandishments of social Washington, stayed mostly at home (their only outing: a preview of a film on the life of Mahatma Gandhi), but during the week the President asked some more Congressmen to lunch. To their utter surprise, House Democrats were included in the guest list, and the White House announced that eventually every Democrat as well as every Republican in Congress (and Maverick Wayne Morse too) would be invited to one of the frequent luncheons...
...Congressmen who misused campaign funds...
...committee vote turned out to be the result of a misunderstanding: some Congressmen had a mistaken idea that Ike was agreeable to having his reorganization powers curtailed. This was straightened out, and last week the House voted to continue the powers held by Harry Truman (i.e., a reorganization action may be overruled only by a majority of the full membership of the House). The count: 389 for extending presidential powers, five against. The Senate concurred on a voice vote...
...demagoguery quickly fizzled out. More seasoned correspondents cabled that Operation Smack had been carefully planned and valuable. It would have been carried out if there had been no visitors. Responsible Congressmen, after inquiry at the Pentagon, agreed that the operation, despite its unfortunate code name, was in no sense a publicity stunt. Military commanders in Korea were aghast over the furor. General Joseph Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, back in Washington after a trip to the Far East, blamed bad reporting, defended Operation Smack as "sound and legitimate." There would be, he said, "many more like...