Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have responsibility for Government functions cannot be expected to recommend the elimination or shrinking of the functions; the great value of the Hoover report is to appraise these activities with an objectivity that bureaucrats, subsidized businessmen or pressured Congressmen cannot share...
...Louisiana's Democratic Representative Overton Brooks organized 100 greedy Congressmen in a bipartisan rump caucus, blithely added $86,376,000 in home-district chitterlings to the Public Works Bill (which included the TVA appropriations) in one of the most blatant congressional pork-barrel operations in years. Lamented Republican Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, in a futile motion to send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends...
...custom decrees that freshmen Congressmen during their first months in office are better seen than heard. Neophyte British M.P.s, on the other hand, are expected to create something of a stir when they rise to make their maiden speech in Parliament. Last week 34-year-old Ron Ledger, newly elected Labor Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage...
...leisurely pleasures. When Miami was suggested last winter as the site for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. unity meeting, Reuther was distressed. "Why, I can't go to Miami," he cried. "It wouldn't look right." Some years ago he assembled his Detroit staff to meet two visiting Congressmen, one of whom remarked archly about the collection of secretarial beauties. Walter looked up and stared at them in surprise before it dawned on him that the Congressman was right. Said one of the girls later: "I honestly think it was the first time he ever...
...contractor for talent, and set aside $2,250,000 for it to get the program rolling. ANTA utilizes panels of top critics to select its export talent (mostly big-name, to attract attention), depends on professional managers to supervise productions. Although the Government sometimes gets requests from Congressmen to send little home-town bands abroad, it leaves the selection completely to ANTA. When possible, ANTA picks groups that have already planned a tour, offers to underwrite all or part of their losses. U.S. artists have made a good impression abroad, have outshone closely guarded Russians by being free and easy...