Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most eyes turned toward the White House and the expected announcement about President Eisenhower's plans, the U.S. Congress was in business as usual. Before the House Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee, a witness from the aircraft industry recited a long list of figures; newsmen doodled on their scratchpads; Congressmen nodded sleepily...
...Very Sorry." Next day the delegates fanned out across Capitol Hill to pin down their Congressmen on civil rights. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender was ready to agree to everything, even the dispatch of U.S. troops to keep order in Mississippi. Virginia's segregationist Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith declined to see the delegates: "A waste of your time and mine." Most dramatic confrontation came when Mississippi's Gus Courts walked into the office of Missis sippi's James O. Eastland. Courts told the Senator how he had been shot, whereupon Eastland shook his head...
...already familiar with Howard's predicament. Though known as "the capstone of Negro education," it was scarcely a third-rate institution. Only two of its eight schools were accredited. The plant was run down; its annual appropriation from the Government was heading into ever-mounting opposition from Southern Congressmen. Running Howard would have been a tough task for any man, but it seemed especially so for the one who was to be its first Negro president...
Urged on by cries of poverty and appeals to charity, higher education is on the march towards bigger and better scholarship programs. Congressmen are urging their fellows to establish a half-billion dollar fund for needy geniuses, corporations are exhorting their stockholders to approve national talent searches, and educators are reminding their former pupils that the alma mater is not yet perfect. In the midst of this nascent crusade, Harvard is fortunately able to assume a somewhat holier-than-thou attitude...
...came as the Senate neared a vote on the Administration-opposed measure to restore rigid price supports for basic farm crops. Democrats charged that Benson deliberately timed his news to sway Southern Democrats to flexible supports. Smiling, the Secretary of Agriculture admitted that he had talked with some Southern Congressmen, guessed that the timing would not hurt...