Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corn Fed. All of this proves that the farm situation is neither economically nor politically as explosive as the clamor would indicate. Farm-state Congressmen who joined the stampede to vote for the Democrats' ill-conceived farm bill (TIME, April 23) have received relatively little mail about the President's veto. The reaction has been selective, largely by crop. Many Southern farmers are angry because the support prices on cotton and peanuts will be considerably below last year's. There is some anger and disappointment among wheat farmers because the wheat price support announced by the President...
...income "dirt farmers." Today it argues that the American farmer has as much right to Government subsidies as the railroad and airline industries, clings to the motto: "True Parity for Real Prosperity." Says President Patton: "We will coordinate our efforts with organized labor. We will work to elect Congressmen, Senators and a President who will give agriculture a better break. We will give all candidates from the presidential ones on down our views, written and verbal. We'll furnish material for their speeches. We'll even write their speeches for them if they want...
Controlled Glee. Southern Democrats are stony-faced before these rattlings from the North. In Washington, Southern Congressmen, fighting to keep the House Judiciary Committee from voting out the Administration's civil-rights bill, forced the committee to break up four times in a single day to answer quorum calls in the House itself. Next day, by meeting before the House was in session, a coalition of Republicans and Northern Democrats succeeded in pushing through approval of the bill and passing it on to the Rules Committee (whose Southern members are likely to succeed in holding up action...
...University suffered, however, in its relations with non-academic people who considered that Princeton was giving a soap-box to a convicted perjurer capable of "charming and deceiving" gullible undergraduates. This view, unhappily, was supported by the popular press and two Congressmen who had no connection with the University except that they represented New Jersey districts...
Last week, as the perjury case came up in Federal District Court, the Justice Department was ready with 18 witnesses from Italy to swear to Icardi's guilt. But the only two witnesses to get to the stand were two Congressmen, Missouri Republican Dewey Short and Subcommittee Chairman W. Sterling Cole, Republican of New York. Under close questioning by Icardi's defense counsel, Edward Bennett Williams, 35 (who defended Joe McCarthy during the 1954 Senate censure hearings), Chairman Cole recollected that he had discussed possible perjury proceedings against Icardi before Icardi gave his testimony to the subcommittee...