Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready to Fight. Nowhere is this new every-man-on-his-own attitude clearer than in Congress, where all House members and 21 Republican Senators are up for re-election and intend to make records they can run on. To Midwestern Congressmen Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is anathema, and they will fight his election-year proposal to cut farm subsidies (TIME. Jan. 27); even so loyal an Administration supporter as Vermont's venerable George Aiken has publicly turned on Benson and his works. More worried about such a simple political issue as rising unemployment than anything else, many...
Terrier-tempered Sherman Adams was MAD, New Hampshire fashion. For weeks Republican Congressmen who dislike him (except in moments of panic) had been dropping into his White House office to moan about the kicks in the teeth they were getting from high-stepping Democrats. In addition, along with other White House aides, Adams had been doing a slow burn of his own over such Democratic slants as Harry Truman's remark that Eisenhower was a good general when he had someone else (i.e., Harry Truman) to tell him what to do (TIME, Jan. 20). Thus, when Republican National Chairman...
Would the President fight to get his complete program, presumably including his $73.9 billion budget, through Congress this year by quietly threatening to withhold election support from Congressmen who opposed him? "No," said Ike. "I don't deal on that basis. I do every possible thing I can in the way of consultation, communication, both in Congress and with people outside of Government, to persuade them of the soundness of [my] views ... I will continue to urge and argue far more behind the scenes than in front, but, nevertheless, I will argue . . . as long as I have strength...
President Eisenhower's agriculture proposals, while they will probably be defeated by congressmen of both parties, are an encouraging sign of Administrative confidence in Secretary Benson...
STEEPER AIR FARES are almost assured for 1958. CAB's problem is when and how to grant raise without raising ire of Congressmen who opposed boost. Majority of board is convinced that present rate scale, little changed in ten years, cannot support lines...