Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced Army court-martial charges ranging in effect from laxity through perjury to espionage. The plot line was that Nickerson, field coordinator of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., had been caught sending secret documents on the missile program to unauthorized businessmen, newsmen and Congressmen. The motivation: Nickerson was making a hero's fight on behalf of the Army missile program ("I was trying anonymously to influence certain key people") against the Air Force's assigned task of operating all the null 1,500-mile missiles, and was thereby (like Billy Mitchell, said the script...
...reference to the Girard case: may I offer my congratulations to Girard's Stateside lawyers, who seem more interested in gaining publicity than in gaining the best trial for their client; to braying Congressmen, who are more interested in "grassroots" support than in the welfare of their country. Finally, my morale will suffer not one whit if Girard is turned over to the Japanese courts. My pride in my country will, however...
Soon letters were pouring into newspapers, heavily backing an American trial for Girard. Congressmen, from left to right, were hammering at the Dulles-Wilson ruling; e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker accused the Government of "sacrificing an American soldier to appease Japanese public opinion." Girard's defense attorney, who was recommended for the job by the Hearst New York Journal-American, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to have Girard brought back to the U.S., announced plans to subpoena Dulles, Wilson and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker. The counterblasts were soon rolling in from all over Asia...
Before the House sat as a Committee of the Whole to debate civil rights, Smith issued a two-part order of the day. His 100 Southern Congressmen were to concentrate fire behind an amendment calling for jury trials in contempt cases-a device of North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin Jr. that would effectively gut the bill while piously pretending to preserve venerable jury-trial rights (TIME, May 6). They were to fight the battle with calmness and consideration, said Smith...
Last week there were still some Agriculture Department officials and Congressmen who said that if its operation could be improved the soil bank might yet do some good. Secretary Benson himself argued that the bank should be allowed to operate for at least one full year in order to have a fair trial. But unless it was cleaned up soon, the bank was fast joining the list of discredited agricultural panaceas. For political reasons the Senate is almost certain to restore most of the cuts. The House will probably go along at some compromise figure, if for no other reason...