Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Democrats were running strong for House seats in other sections of the U.S., a handful of embattled Republicans in the South held firm. Five G.O.P. Southern Congressmen retained their seats, notably among them Dallas' Bruce Alger, who held off the strong challenge of Democrat Barefoot Sanders...
NORTHEAST AIRLINES, last domestic trunkline off federal subsidy in 1956, will be first to go back on. Chief reason: planes on New York-Miami route, on which CAB overruled its own examiner to award to Northeast after pressure from New England congressmen, are flying only 15% full v. 59% needed to break even...
...President, for reasons unexplained, had billed this part of his tour "nonpolitical." He neither replied to Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy's needling of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (from the same platform just an hour before), nor appealed for votes for Republican Congressmen, nor even said a ringing word on behalf of Iowa's G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate William G. Murray, Iowa State University agriculture-economics professor, who stands an outside chance against lackluster Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless. Instead, Ike threw in a statement from hastily jotted notes on foreign policy: "You cannot bargain or negotiate in a world...
...comparing notes with his colleagues to see how they met the problem of maintaining common bonds with their districts. He joined the Michigan Republican delegation at breakfast every other week, became a regular at the weekly Tuesday-afternoon sessions of the Acorn Club, an informal organization of freshmen Republican Congressmen who shared with Chamberlain the problem of learning. Such group meetings were helpful, but Chamberlain was still the only Representative from the Sixth District of Michigan, and slowly, painfully, he developed his own system of keeping pace with the folks back home...
...doubtful that a Federal health insurance bill could survive the Washington gauntlet of conservative congressmen and AMA lobbyists. But in some of the wealthier and more liberal states--New York, Pennsylvania, California, Michigan, and others--public health insurance might be initiated. Successful implementation of state insurance programs would provide inspiration and incentive to establish a national health insurance plan...