Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiastic faces. Wherever Democrats had raised an issue to badger him, he met it quietly, succeeded (so his supporters thought) in turning it to his own advantage. Less and less White House aides discussed the presidential race, more and more they made optimistic estimates about the number of G.O.P. Congressmen who would ride in on Ike's coattails. Last week, to spread those coattails even wider, the President again hit the campaign trail he has come to enjoy...
...Roosevelt constantly risked unpopularity by stepping into controversies in order to give force to his proposals. Before Congress, he identified himself and the prestige of his office with T.V.A., selective service, and reform of the Supreme Court. He tried to purge his party by refusing to endorse Southern Congressmen for reelection, and he sought to awaken the nation to aggression by the Japanese in his 1937 "Quarantine" speech. Under Roosevelt and Truman such leadership broke down only when they did battle with arrogant or short-sighted zeal...
...President's energy has been greatly sapped by his illnesses, but it is not only reason for his failure to exert political pressure. In foreign trade, after asking for a long-range reciprocal trade program, he agreed to an ineffective one-year compromise. Similarly, when Republican Congressmen killed a public housing bill, the enacting of which he had termed a "moral obligation," the President said nothing...
Abetted by the Southern propensity for returning Senators and Congressmen to Washington term after term (which gives the South a stranglehold on 34 different House and Senate committees in a Democratic Congress). Herman Talmadge is prepared to enjoy the privilege and power of Senate seniority for a long, long time. Predicts one Georgia political expert: "The man who will beat Herman is still a teen-ager...
...year, the tribe employed an old-fashioned tactic: ambush. Public Law 887 was presented to Congress as an Interior Department bill, and the Interior Department unwittingly neglected to tell any of Kansas' Senators or Representatives about it. Last week, while Kansas Citians raged and Kansas' red-faced Congressmen fired off telegrams to Washington, Lawrence Zane, a custodian in the Miami, Okla. post office and duly elected chief of the 900-member Wyandotte tribe, told how simple it was. Said he: "We kept it quiet...