Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Insisted that an "embezzler should lose what he owned as well as what he stole," authorized confiscation of all personal property of Batista and hundreds of officials connected with him-including all Congressmen, mayors, governors, Supreme Court justices, all armed-forces officers who supported Batista's 1952 coup...
...fantastic Congressman Harmon's business was obviously public business, and as such, it was the latest in a series of exposés on congressional nepotism, payroll high jinks and money-hungry Congressmen that have boiled out of Capitol Hill in the past two months. And the man behind the Harmon story was the newsman behind the entire series: Scripps-Howard's lean, bow-tied Vance Henry Trimble, 45, a shirtsleeve reporter who got his beats by dogged digging in a city where newsmen often settle for the mimeographed handout and the formal press conference...
...maiden House speech, apologized if he had cast reflections on Congress, announced son Steven was taking a pay cut to $6,402. Publicly the House applauded; privately its members were hopping mad. So much bad publicity had been churned up by the Carters that a pending proposal to provide Congressmen with $14,000-a-year administrative assistants was in trouble...
While voicing doubt the Russians want to start a war, the secretary told the congressmen, "We are prepared to meet various stages of the Berlin situation as it develops...
...Proxmire attacked Johnson and much that is sacred to him: 1) the control of Congress by the two Texans, Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (''When you get these two men together with the power of making committee assignments, you see the obsequious bowing, scraping Senators and Congressmen around them"); 2) the oil depletion allowance ("a terrific tax handout and giveaway"); 3) Johnson's talents for civil rights compromise ("Effective civil rights legislation is impossible"). Then Proxmire, a Harvard Business School graduate ('40), blamed Johnson for keeping him off the Senate Finance Committee despite repeated requests...