Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some modern artists forced the State Department to cancel its overseas exhibitions of contemporary American art. It took eight years and calmer times to change the picture, but now the U.S. Information Agency is again giving modern artists their say abroad. What they are saying would upset some Congressmen just as much...
When House-Senate conferees voted to extend the life of the Agriculture Department's soil bank for another year (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), many Congressmen did so reluctantly. Last week Arizona's Democratic Congressman Stewart L. Udall turned up a case that went a long way toward explaining their reluctance. The case: Arizona Cotton Farmer Jack A. Harris, who put his entire 1,600-acre Pima County cotton farm in the soil bank in return for a $209,701 Government payment, then turned around and plowed up a new farm to grow three times as much cotton. Cried Congressman...
...Congressmen receive $22,500 annually, have franking privileges plus generous allowances for stationery, office expenses, clerks' salaries, and one trip home each year...
...business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
...that the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee will do so. Senator Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee got ready to grill Treasury Secretary Humphrey on the boost this week, may also call steel-industry executives to testify. And incoming Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson wistfully told Congressmen: "I wish the steel increase had not taken place...