Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Concede." On the House floor Louis Rabaut was waiting. Against nearly every clause of the supplemental appropriations bill Rabaut raised a point of order. But Clarence Cannon, who has a notoriously low boiling point (he has been in fistfights with other Congressmen time and again), remained cool. "I concede the point of order," he said repeatedly. His reason: Cannon figured that he could show up the Rules Committee's petty vengeance by letting it result in the death of badly needed appropriations. With Rabaut objecting and Cannon agreeing, out went money for agricultural conservation. Out went funds...
...vote, the House appropriated $2.6 billion for Mutual Security. But angry Congressmen slashed $420 million from requested funds for military aid. The cut came after the Defense Department and Foreign Operations Administration, finding themselves with $420 million left over from previous appropriations, rushed to tie up the money before the end of the fiscal year instead of returning it to the Treasury...
...Peronista revolution has ended," Juan Perón announced suddenly last week to a caucus of Peronista Congressmen. "Now starts a new stage, constitutional in nature and free from revolutions, because revolution cannot be the permanent situation in a country." Therefore, the Strongman said, he was going to step out of the party and "become the President of all Argentines, friends and enemies." He promised, moreover, to "abolish all restrictions that we have imposed on the country" and give the opposition "all liberties within...
...prestige-building and moneysaving deal out of the U.S. Air Force? Last spring Moral Re-Armament tried to wheedle 200 free trips from the U.S. to the Far East out of Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens, who referred them to commercial charter concerns. Last June some 20 Congressmen descended upon Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson, proclaiming that to carry Moral Re-Armament representatives around Asia, after they got there by commercial routes, was a worthy assignment for the Air Force. Wilson and Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott finally "approved the project...
...Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks warned the committeemen that the Senate amendment would prevent Government "from using the best men available." Citing the WOCs who administer 15 out of 25 industry divisions in his department's Business and Defense Services Administration, the Commerce Secretary in effect challenged the skeptical Congressmen to find a "single case ... of even the slightest impropriety." He argued that barring WOCs from policymaking posts would screen out the top men, for no top executive would make the sacrifice of entering Government service just to function as an exalted clerk...