Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dared ... Such outbursts of presidential temper had been coming with increasing frequency in recent months. At his press conference last week, the President was plainly feeling irascible again. He answered all questions with the same half-throttled irritation. Reminded that some Congressmen were threatening to fry the fat out of the budget, he thrust out his jaw and declared that they had said that last year and ended up adding a billion or so. It was a good, tight budget, he said truculently, and he dared them to do anything...
...DiSalle had little choice, now that he had slapped on retail price ceilings while livestock prices were uncontrolled. Last week he hinted to farm-bloc Congressmen that when & if he freezes livestock prices that are above parity, he will not roll back prices...
Then, urging the young Congressmen to work hard on Capitol Hill, the President unwound a bit. "There is one thing about this job," Harry Truman confided with a wry smile. "It has no future...
...slightest idea of what they were voting on. He found that out of 650 members, only a handful ever attended meetings, and this handful ran the post to suit themselves. Merson got madder & madder. With such a setup, what right had national Legion commanders to tell U.S. congressmen that they represented the wishes of nearly 3,000,000 members...
Pearson countered with four California Congressmen, who said that Howser's reputation had been poor in 1948. Pearson's most telling evidence: a deposition from the witness who said he had carried the bribe from a gambler direct to Howser. The jury's unanimous verdict: Howser had not been libeled. Pearson was the winner in his ninth libel suit...