Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some Congressmen draw fees from insurance agencies or law partnerships. Some, like New York's Herbert Lehman, California's Bill Knowland and Pennsylvania's Jim Duff, are independently wealthy and spend a great deal of their own money on political activity. A most lucrative and common practice is the delivery of speeches for fees. The Democrats' Estes Kefauver, Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey are all regulars on the speech circuit. The star of the circuit is Vice President Alben Barkley, who has for years drawn fees up to $1,000 for each appearance. Barkley...
...Started. The most obvious-and perhaps the most, important-difference between Nixon's fund and other Congressmen's sources of outside income is that Nixon raised money by an unconventional method, whereas the outside incomes of other congressmen, though not necessarily more proper, have the sanction of time. A few decades ago, the Nixon fund would have been unlikely, because there would have been no reason for it. Before the decline of state political machines, expenses such as Nixon's (for speeches, mailing propaganda, etc.) were met out of party organization funds. But today in many states...
Background: Massachusetts has gone Democratic in every presidential election since 1928, and seven of its last eleven gubernatorial elections have been won by Democrats. Since 1944, however, both Massachusetts Senators have been Republicans, and since 1948 eight of the state's 14 Congressmen have been Republican. In 1952, for the first time in years, registered Republicans (715,958) outnumbered registered Democrats (703,740) in Massachusetts. These statistics are deceptive, because another 700,000 Massachusetts voters not formally enrolled in either party vote far more heavily Democratic than Republican. Two-thirds of the state's potential voters are Roman...
Swinging into its seventh season, the Law School Forum will present three congressmen and one congresswoman tomorrow night to debate the big issue of 1952: Mr. President. The program will begin at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
Both solutions are makeshift, and at least one of them is potentially corrupt. If the salaries of Congressmen and other public servants rose to a point commensurate with the importance of their work, essentially honest men like Nixon would need no angels...