Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Nickerson was ordered to face a Third Army court-martial on 18 tough specifications charging that he 1) included secret information on the U.S. missile program in documents sent to unauthorized civilian businessmen and newsmen (as well as-although the charges did not say it-to several Alabama Congressmen), 2) had violated national-security laws by sending three secret documents to Managing Editor Erik Bergaust of Missiles and Rockets magazine, and 3) had lied under oath in denying that he had distributed secret material...
...could stir up an Air Force rebuttal. But the Air Force refused to rise to the bait, and notified the Army; the Army ordered the Pearson copy confiscated. Then Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker began padding around Capitol Hill in person picking up other copies from Alabama Congressmen. Back at Redstone, Army MPs burst into Nickerson's ante-bellum (1817) home, searched it from attic to basement, refused to let anybody in or out for 24 hours, and the Nickerson case...
...sooner had the Senate labor racketeering probe recessed one afternoon last week than workmen rushed to load the same chandeliered, red-carpeted room with palms, potato chips and potables for a more friendly gathering. Following behind the food and drink came 200 G.O.P. Congressmen for a reception tendered retiring National Chairman Leonard Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House...
...emphasizes the need for more aid to under-developed countries which can be of little immediate military value. Such aid would be drastically cut if the agitation of Chambers of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers is heeded. Eisenhower's weak stand can hardly protect this item from congressmen whose mail boxes are stuffed to overflowing...
...that what happened decidedly does not call for a rest. Disappointed by the Eisenhower Administration's big budget and its failure to cut corporate taxes, federal spending and Government services, the chamber has been slugging away at Eisenhower economic policies, urging large audiences to bring pressure on their Congressmen. In each city the clinic turned up surprisingly vigorous support and evidence of the new and increasing opposition to the path of the "businessman's administration...