Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressmen should not let the yappings of the economy bloc halt this Indian investment. If anything, it should be increased. Some have said that both logic and the requisites of a bipartisan foreign policy dictate Bowles' retention as advisor to the program he has sponsored. But his popularity in India is so great his presence there might detract from Allen's effectiveness. The Eisenhower administration must allow the new Ambassador to continue Bowles' program if they hope to check the sudden backsliding in Indo-American relations...
...Congressmen who want to curb the presidential power to reorganize Government: "Squirrel heads . . . pinheads . . . brainy and mighty-domed . . . always know more than anybody else on any subject...
...What the Congressmen ought to investigate and expose is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigations, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in grave danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge it is about time for students to stop going to school...
...long-range aims of his Administration must be the ending of the Korean war and the achievement of peace; everything else must take a back seat. Nobody disagreed. Then a general understanding was reached on a wide range of back-seat matters: cut spending before cutting taxes, consult with Congressmen before making appointments, let the Senate deal with its own rules on filibustering. Senator Young had a particular gripe; he had heard that Ike's Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson would not support a 90% farm parity program. In no time at all, Eisenhower's Attorney General Herbert...
...number of Congressmen planning investigations of alledged communist influence into the nation's colleges and universities jumped to three last week...