Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong feeling did send lightning charges of worry through Adams. Aware that he must deal daily with Congress on his job, Adams asked a colleague: "Will Republican Congressmen want to talk to me? Can I work with them?" It was obvious that he expected no answer...
Dwight Eisenhower labeled reciprocal trade one of the session's three "imperatives," pleaded his case in speeches, meetings with congressional leaders, private sessions with visitors. He got influential businessmen to send the Congressmen letters plugging the bill. He supplied Democrat Mills and House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin with powerful ammunition: individual letters from the President warning that adoption of the Simpson bill would be a "tragic blunder...
...White House put so much behind-the-scenes heat on wavering Republican Congressmen (who voted 2 to 1 for the bill) that baffled Tariff Lobbyist Oscar R. Strackbein, after betting a month before on a victory for the protectionists, glumly observed: "I have never seen such pressure since the days of Franklin Roosevelt." In the last days before the floor debate, Republicans trudged into Dick Simpson's office to ask him to release them from their promises to vote with him. A vote against reciprocal trade, one explained, would cost him White House support for a bill that...
...plan calls for Government stockpile purchases of up to 150,000 tons at prices up to 27½? per lb. (v. the present producers' price of 25? per lb.) in addition to the 10,000 tons a month the Government already buys for the stockpile. Western mining-state Congressmen like the stockpiling plan better than the out-and-out subsidy previously suggested, thus are expected to support the reciprocal trade agreements (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) instead of backing the recommendations of the Tariff Commission for tariff boosts which have already caused the U.S. trouble in South America...
...What's the Date?" So engrossed was Ike in elaborating his "musts" that he forgot the time. At 9 o'clock one of the Congressmen broke in to remind him of his Cabinet meeting. As the party broke up. New Jersey's Peter Frelinghuysen asked the President to autograph his place card. "What's the date?" asked Ike. "June 6," said somebody. "Oh," mused the onetime Allied Commander in Chief, reaching...