Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose that the wrangling Congressmen who quibbled about the cut in the military budget be stuffed in the warhead of the first rocket making a trip to the moon...
...Speaker of the House of Representatives, with powers far beyond those of Sam Rayburn in Washington, Laurel exercises a firm control over the rich congressional pork barrel. Last July President Garcia "released" some $10 million of public funds to dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims...
...columnists and Congressmen who screamed injustice last spring, when U.S. Soldier William S. Girard was turned over to Japanese courts, had reckoned without Judge Yuzo Kawachi of the Maebashi District Court. As the Girard trial went into its third week, Judge Kawachi donned raincoat and rubbers and a peasant's wide-brimmed straw hat, took the court sloshing through mud and drenching rain to the hilltop of the U.S. Army firing range where Girard shot a Japanese woman in the back and killed her while she was scavenging for scrap metal (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Meticulously the judge...
...sounds like a young child (Congress) trying to prove its independence of its parents (Ike) by threatening to run away from home (responsibility). We can only hope that men like Henry Kissinger (Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy) will, each in his own line, bring us and our Congressmen to a realization of what we are doing before Russia does...
...KING COAL is getting weaker instead of healthier, says House Interior Subcommittee after 15-month study. Despite high exports, say Congressmen, industry is "sick with wide spread mine shutdowns and staggering unemployment." To help industry's "uphill struggle for survival," group will ask for tax relief, a special presidential commission to research new uses for coal and ways to cut mounting production costs...