Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appropriations, seemed only to irritate the Democratic leadership of the House. Said Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, leader of the forces aiming to slash foreign aid: "What the President wants does not mean a damn thing to me unless it makes sense." Growled Speaker Sam Rayburn: "Sometimes Congressmen shoot and cut in another direction if they are not in good humor." And Mr. Sam made it clear that he was in a foul humor...
...warm afterglow of the Hungarian revolution, President Eisenhower laid U.S. prestige on the line by urging Congress to increase the annual number of immigrants to the U.S. from about 155,000 to about 190,000. He also laid U.S. good faith on the line-to the cheers of Congressmen and editorial writers-by admitting 24,-600 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. "on parole," with the tacit understanding that legislation to grant them permanent visas would come later...
...airlines for 20 years have offered passengers a cheery glass aloft on foreign flights, on some domestic nights since 1949. But some Congressmen have long urged aerial prohibition, and last year the airlines headed off possible action by limiting passengers to two 1.6-oz. drinks on domestic flights. Even that is not enough for South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and Oregon's Senator Richard L. Neuberger, both teetotalers. Last week, in two bills, they called for prohibition on both domestic and foreign nights...
Architecturally speaking. Congress has been giving the U.S. Air Force a rough ride. While Congressmen want the Air Force to have the very latest thing in airplanes and missiles, they do not feel quite the same way about chapels. Congressmen marshaled some Congress-like reasons two years ago to turn down plans for the Air Force Academy chapel at Colorado Springs (TIME, July 18, 1955 et seq.). So angry were their cries against the glass, steel and aluminum project that the Air Force decided to rub it all out and start over again. Last week the House debated...
...gets them, since only five crops (wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco) are supported, and they are produced by the nation's most prosperous farmers. Left out almost completely are some 2,500,000 marginal farmers. These underfed and ill-housed families are a farm problem that few Congressmen talk about. Last week Congress grudgingly voted $2,500,000 for their benefit, a cut of $1,500,000 below the amount President Eisenhower urgently requested this year for Rural Development, the nation's newest farm program...