Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PALACE. ADMISSION FREE) at which the policies of his one-party government are submitted for general approbation. Last week in the capital of Pnompenh, 8,000 "congressmen"-shopkeepers, farmers, tricycle drivers, artisans and housewives-assembled in a huge scarlet tent, set up among the peach-pink and ochre-tinted pagodas, to hear their princely Premier outline his new foreign policy...
...vigor and persistence of the disorders evidently alarmed Aramburu. At week's end the government hastily freed 66 former Peronista Congressmen "in keeping with a healthy policy of pacification." It was the first time the regime had spoken of pacification...
After the legislative package is filled and tied, the Secretary of Agriculture plans to eat his way through a series of breakfasts with Congressmen, selling his plan between bites. While he is still clinging tightly to his principle of flexible price supports, Ezra Benson in 1956 will be aiming, far more than ever before, to please the farm politician and the farm voter...
What the Communists are up to in Berlin was made plain at midweek by Soviet Ambassador to East Germany Georgy M. Pushkin. In identical notes to the U.S., Britain and France, Pushkin rejected their joint protest over the four-hour detention by East Berlin police of two U.S. Congressmen (TIME, Dec. 12) and added ominously: "East Germany now . . . regulates . . . the lines of communication between [West Germany] and West Berlin." In effect, Pushkin was telling the West: if you want barge permits and free road traffic, apply to the East German Communists; it's no longer any business of ours...
...nine clumsy biplanes crossed the Virginia coast and rumbled out to sea like tired June bugs. Eight of them were loaded to limit with a 2,000-lb. egg of destruction. Below, on the deck of the transport Henderson, a crowd of U.S. admirals, generals, Cabinet members and Congressmen milled for vantage with a score of newsmen and foreign diplomats. One by one the bombers buzzed past the target at about 2,500 ft. and laid their eggs. At the sixth pass, an aged officer put his head in his hands and wept, as the "unsinkable" German battleship Ostfriesland sank...