Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman, Zagri spoke like a crusader on a trailer-truck parking lot: "Get a delegation down here tomorrow morning and tear his door down." He provided his agents with sample form letters to send in, urged wires, calls and protest meetings, brought non-Teamster unionists to Washington to badger Congressmen, and did most of the talking...
...time, for breakfast at the Congressional Hotel. The host: Harold Gibbons, hard-boiled Hoffa deputy from St. Louis, who made his breakfasts politically tasty by flying in union leaders from the home regions of each day's new group of House guests. No fewer than 245 Congressmen heard Host Gibbons introduce Persuader Zagri as his own "community relations" expert from St. Louis. "We are not against legislation," said Zagri smoothly, "but this bill is so defective . . ." Zagri's precise speech and trained legal mind (U.C.L.A., Harvard, University of Wisconsin) sent the guests away impressed; for his part, Zagri...
...Scheduled for final committee vote this week-and near enough to the Senate version to have a good chance of becoming law-the labor reform bill was a stronger piece of legislation than it would have been without Zagri's efforts. By sending in his persuader, Hoffa gave Congressmen a personal taste of his tactics, apparently firmed up their resolve to do something about them...
Since Wild Horse Annie's campaign got under way, most Western states have outlawed mustang hunting by plane on state lands. After hearing her testimony last week, many sympathetic Congressmen agreed that the practice should be outlawed on federal lands, too. Passage of Wild Horse Annie's bill seems likely -with one amendment. The Interior Department claims the horses are a potential threat to grazing lands, asked the right to hunt them humanely if the herds get too big. Wild Horse Annie has no objection to that...
Clipping Coupons. Expressed in the hostility toward public spending were both longaccumulated annoyance at the bite of taxation and sharp awareness of the nibble of price upcreep. In response to a recent Los Angeles Times campaign urging readers to write to their Congressmen in protest against inflationary federal spending, more than 30,000 letters descended on California members of Congress. The Chicago Tribune printed handy "stop inflation" coupons, and more than 130,000 were clipped out by readers and mailed to Springfield and Washington...