Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Learned, through a manifesto signed by 83 Southerners (79 Democrats, 4 Republicans), that the Administration's civil-rights program is in for desperate rear-guard treatment when the House debates on it this week. The Southern Congressmen, calling the bill "sinister and iniquitous," declared that it would intensify racial antagonisms, and indicated that they would try to amend it to death. Even if the bill passes the House, it is certain to be filibustered in the Senate...
...richest man in Colorado, and this attracted 20-year-old Baby Doe, who blew into Leadville in 1881, established herself as Tabor's mistress and persuaded him to divorce his wife. As an interim Senator in Washington, he married Baby Doe in a lavish ceremony attended by Congressmen, diplomats and President Chester A. Arthur himself. But when silver fell in 1893, Tabor fell with...
...Congressmen: Don't "give" aid, "offer...
...Tribune Reporter Robert J. Donovan's new book, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (TIME, July 2). Many a newspaper reader rushed to get it because most of the U.S. press, apparently confused over the release date, lagged in reporting Donovan's fresh material. Among the most avid: Democratic Congressmen, who promptly began to cry "foul...
...House with blundering ineptitude in letting Donovan in. The volume, he wrote, "contains much ammunition useful to the Democrats." But Columnist Roscoe Drummond thought that the White House's "calculated risk'' had produced "an honest, balanced, faithful, narrative record" of the Administration. Drummond also dismissed the Congressmen's objections. He wrote: "Presidents have always affirmed that it is the executive's responsibility to determine how, when, what, to whom and under what circumstances it will make available material from its private files...