Word: congressmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Salt Lake City and Los Angeles urging the delegates to meet the challenge of heavy Republican losses in last fall's election. The Republicans lost six House seats in the 11 Western states, more than their losses in the rest of the country combined. The vote for Republican Congressmen slipped from their 55 percent of the total vote in 1952 to 49 percent...
Even this mild show of fight had a perceptible effect: the odds in Congress suddenly rose that Ike's defense budget would suffer little more than half a billion token cut because few Congressmen were hardy enough to challenge the Eisenhower last word on national security. Also many a Democrat was suddenly made aware that he might have to answer to constituents in 1958 for cutting the kind of domestic programs that had long been the principal Democratic stock in trade...
...President's new offensive came none too soon, for the flap over the budget had signaled a remarkably resolute rebellion against the whole Eisenhower program by the G.O.P. Old Guard. Also with each passing day Congressmen were getting themselves committed to new budget cuts and-in the absence of any public clamor in defense of Ike's program-taking up political positions from which retreat might be difficult...
Along with horror stories on boondoggle items such as "the $300,000 that the Army spends to finance Sunday morning recreation for civilian members of private rifle clubs," the Knight papers have run two-column pep talks urging readers to protest to their Congressmen, helped them out with maps of congressional districts and names of Representatives...
...whether Scher's method had any value (similar techniques have previously been tried and found wanting). In any case, he violated all the rules of the psychiatric club by taking his protest outside the institute's massive brick walls (by way of the patients' families) to Congressmen and to Secretary Marion Folsom of Health, Education and Welfare...