Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressmen responded with bills tagging baseball a business subject to antitrust laws, but a third moved in with a counterproposal to exempt all the big-league games-baseball, football, hockey and basketball-from the antitrust laws. Even in the warm sunshine of the training camps, baseball owners shivered to think of the possible consequences of the Supreme Court's call-a state of affairs in which each freely enterprising male with a talent for fielding, flinging or flailing a baseball can sell his prowess to the highest bidder each season. But not all shared their plaint that this would...
MODERN Republicanism," business leaders and Congressmen have suddenly discovered to their horror, is more than just a progressive political movement. It is also a record peacetime budget. The House Appropriation Committee's Veteran Chairman Clarence Cannon says that he cannot recall anything like the current public outcry against the budget, and dozens of Senators and Congressmen are purposefully sharpening their paring knives. For how much they hope to cut, and where, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Cut That Budget...
Some 1,100 Senators, Congressmen, major and minor office holders and society folk trooped into the annual Mardi Gras thrown by the Louisiana State Society and captained by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long. They little expected the zip and zeal with which ebullient Russ Long enveloped them-particularly since he had invited them to bring their own liquor. But as they crowded around 96 tables under a ceiling billowing in balloons and confetti, the din raced into high decibels...
...humility of Founding Father Mahatma Gandhi. Tailors in a dozen cities found themselves facing a run on khadi, the homespun cloth that Gandhi wore. Untouchables in village market squares were elbowed aside by candidates eager to drink at their untouchable wells. Some untouchables even found themselves invited to Congressmen's homes...
Unfortunately the House Banking and Currency Committee voted to make into a Congressional investigation what should be a thorough study of the United States' financial system. But Congress needs an understanding of the operations and effects of our economic set-up which a Congressional committee cannot acquire. Congressmen lack time and background to cover the complex problem...