Word: congressmen
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...Patman as a longtime foe of FRB, are afraid of just that. As House Minority Leader Joseph Martin says, "Congress could turn the study into a witch hunt," and thus confuse instead of clarify the issues. But the main reason that Congress should not make the study, say many Congressmen, is that the project has too broad a scope for any of the regular congressional committees to handle...
Nail-Chewing Functionaries. For the most part, the funds are spent with a sense of responsibility by Congressmen and their staffs educating themselves. But there are some who ride the Uncle-pays plan like a gravy train. Last week, in offices scattered all over the world. U.S. diplomatic and information officials were recounting a nightmarish story of two such hellbent freeloaders, both staff members of the Senate Appropriations Committee. They are Grace Johnson, fiftyish, tough-talking, weight-throwing $10,000-a-year staffer and longtime friend of Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender; and her companion, Mississippi-born...
...more important, Virginia's Republican Party, given impetus by the influx of new Alexandria-Arlington voters, has developed into a bona fide political force: Dwight Eisenhower twice carried the state, the first time by 80,000 votes, this year by 122,000; Virginia has two Republican Congressmen who have withstood the test of off-year elections; Democratic incumbents were hard pressed in three other districts this year; Republican State Senator Ted Dalton received more than 44% of the vote for governor in 1953. Expected to run again next year, he may threaten the organization's hold on Richmond...
Long after most congressional votes around the country had been counted and analyzed. House seats in three scattered districts still hung in balance. Last week, as the tabulation in each shifted from home votes to stacks of absentee ballots, incumbent Congressmen who seemed doomed to defeat were hoisted back into their seats on the shoulders of servicemen, students and traveling constituents. Items...
...Republican unseated a Democratic incumbent. Outside the South. Republicans carried at least 193 congressional districts; the Democrats carried fewer than 130. The Republicans cracked all traditionally Democratic ethnic and religious blocs except (amid the Israel crisis) the Jewish. In the South, every one of the five Southern Republican Congressmen held on to his seat. Ike rolled up a bigger popular vote in six Southern states than in 1952, and for the first time since the Civil War there was a genuine framework for a Southern two-party system...