Word: congressmen
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...rarely voted so much as a nickel for foreign aid, Bentley said: "You may be surprised by what I do." Halleck was indeed surprised. Bentley not only voted to restore $100 million, but actually made a speech in favor of foreign aid. Where in past years scores of Republican Congressmen could be expected to vote against foreign aid in any form, last week only 26 of the 152 G.O.P. members stood in opposition. Charlie Halleck had an explanation for the remarkable showing: "They're beginning to have a feeling of better liaison with the White House. It makes them...
...thoughts and words were made known in quiet talks with unnerved Congressmen, in one of his toughest-talk press conferences (see below), in a strategically timed call on Congress to provide more foreign aid to U.S. allies, and finally, in a speech drafted for nationwide telecast a few days before the arrival this week of Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Word from the Sponsor. Noted, after seven months, was the fact that Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood got printed in the appendix of the Aug. 21 Congressional Record (circ. 42,400) a lengthy advertisement for Diplomat cigarettes (manufactured in Wilkes-Barre). Last week, after his fellow Congressmen began receiving "reprints" courtesy of the manufacturer, nonsmoking Daniel Flood allowed as he had no objection to use of the Record to reprint ads: "I see nothing wrong...
Payroll Pay Dirt. Then, still plugging away at his list of freshmen Congressmen with relatives on the payroll, Trimble struck pay dirt when he called Mrs. Randall Harmon on a hunch. He hit on precisely the right question: "Incidentally, where is your office?" Mrs. Harmon's answer: "Why, on the front porch." An Indianapolis reporter later wrote that Harmon was so enraged by Trimble's story that he waved a pistol and vowed: "I figure on throwing the fear of God into that Vance Trimble...
Nothing is more sacred to many Congressmen than the depletion allowance. Attempts by various administrations to change it have been quickly beaten down. Undaunted by this. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson last week took up the attack again. He told Congress that something has to be done to tighten up on the depletion allowance; the loopholes in the law are so many that the Treasury stands to lose hundreds of millions in revenue each year...