Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question bothering Congress ' as it adjourned for Easter vacation: Do the homefolks want a tax cut as an attempt to cure the recession? Pollster Sam Lubell got home before the Congressmen to report that the homefolks and Congress are in wide disagreement on what the recession means, how bad it is, and how it should be cured. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The People...
...Appeal. Into the plan's making went three months of hard work by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. service chiefs, former commanders. Congressmen, civilian experts, a staff of advisers-and by General Eisenhower. Fortnight ago McElroy began sending his conclusions to the President, who took the recommendations as raw material, retooled them in the shape of his own convictions on military organization. Almost every paragraph bristles with Ike's first person singular, e.g., "I have long been aware . . ." "I have directed . . ." "I therefore propose . . ." Many conclusions are based directly on his service as World War II Supreme Allied Commander...
...copper prices? Copper analysts think not-at least not yet. The last ½? hike at custom smelters, in December, lasted only three weeks when the price dropped back, subsequently fell 2? more. Demand is still sluggish at the 25?-a-lb. level asked by major domestic producers, and Western Congressmen are still talking about a sick industry and pressing for a 4?-a-lb. tariff, placing the "peril point" where the tariff would go into effect at 30? (TIME, Feb. 10). While producers feel that the users' inventory liquidation is about over, higher copper prices can come only with...
...should be the leaders in Washington. This business of bringing in auto and soap manufacturers is darned foolish. They simply cannot know their way around the intricacies of Government . . . Since I've learned the intricacies of the Government, I spend as much time as possible briefing Senators and Congressmen about air power as I know...
...mismanaged nation. He arrived in the U.S. quoting Abraham Lincoln, got a ticker-tape welcome in New York City, saw Hollywood (he was disappointed to miss Ava Gardner, who was off in Spain), made an address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. He told the Congressmen that "we of Indonesia are in the stage of national turmoil through which America passed some 150 years ago. We ask you to understand," and won hearty applause by dwelling on the many similarities between the American Revolution and that of Indonesia against the Dutch. He charmed the U.S. President and press...