Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undercut Perón's pretensions to righteousness, an official investigating committee reported that during his twelve years in power, Peronista Congressmen raised their combined personal assets from 6,650,000 pesos to a fat 206,000,000 pesos -among the biggest gainers being the pair who offered the greatest number of congressional resolutions of homage...
...Sioux Indian Tribal Council is demanding compensation for lost agricultural and game land; the American Farm Bureau Federation is pressing the Senate Agriculture Committee to broaden Agriculture Secretary Benson's soil-bank plan. As she has for some 50 years, Miss Alice ("The Little Quakeress") Paul is buttonholing Congressmen in her pursuit of equal rights for women...
...have great sympathy for Nixon's dilemma, and last week they tried to express their feelings. On the occasion of Nixon's 43rd birthday, a party in the auditorium of the National Press Club was given by the Chowder and Marching Society, an organization of G.O.P. Congressmen who came to the House at the same time as Nixon. It was a cold and icy night, but this was no ordinary turnout. On hand were nearly all members of the Eisenhower Cabinet, the White House staff, most G.O.P. Congressional leaders. From President Eisenhower came two congratulatory messages...
...been something of a jolt for the man who has spent a lifetime in the symmetrical, sense-making world of banking. In auditing Defense Department expenses, for example, he learned that a few expensive, unnecessary items had to stay in the budget because they affected the home folks of Congressmen or Senators with critical votes to cast on the whole budget. He had to learn to jump at a growl from the members of the House Appropriations Committee. Only last week, while his head was swimming with the billions of the new budget, old John Taber, ranking Republican...
Sipping orangeade (supplied by Norodom at 30? a glass), the congressmen next took part in a discussion of domestic policy, about which they had firmer ideas. The burning issues (raised by the country's 30,000 Buddhist monks) : prohibition of opium smoking, alcohol, prostitution, the slaughtering of cattle, working on Buddhist holidays. The spokesman for opium-den owners (frequented mainly by Chinese) was shouted down, and Norodom promised a ban on opium. But the use of alcohol was held to be legal because of the danger that "our peasants will ruin their health brewing their...