Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Costa Rican liberals fought a successful civil war to prevent reactionary congressmen from nullifying President Ulate's election. In 1787 Thomas Jefferson wrote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed irom time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure...
...rolling, nothing quite equals the U.S. Congress in those ood, occasional moments when it feels that its honor has been impugned. Last week members of the House hit the ceiling so hard that it seemed for a while they would have to be scraped off, en masse. The Congressmen believed they were being accused by one of their own number of being drunks and spies...
...offender. In campaigning against Cole for survival in Congress, Campaigner Hall, the Binghamton Press reported, made the charge: "I see that my opponent is going to Nevada, ostensibly to witness an atom-bomb explosion. Well, it will probably be another elbow-tipping party . . . When they get these Congressmen a little tipsy, are they spilling out secrets that are going into Russian hands...
Meanwhile, the assembled Congressmen breathed scorching blasts at Representative Hall. "I hesitate to dignify him by calling him a gentleman," cried California's Carl Hinshaw. "A dastardly effort to blacken the reputation of a man that cannot be blackened," cried Illinois' Mrs. Marguerite Church...
Profane Blast. The term "shoestring Air Force" irritated Congressmen who had appropriated a total of $35 billion for the U.S. Air Force since 1946. But in terms of the enemy's newly revealed seven-league boots, the point was all too valid. All last summer Vandenberg tried to make the other Joint Chiefs see the peril as he saw it. Sometimes, after a no-progress session, he would come back to his office, hurl his cap on a chair, and let loose a profane blast of despair...