Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President out of a $40,000 accountable expense allowance), office staff, ushers or personnel who work for other departments, e.g., the Treasury's Secret Service men and White House police, the Pentagon's soldiers who drive White House cars. Chief White House Usher Howell Crim showed Congressmen that he keeps a taut budget: last year he came out with $41 to spare...
...wolf cry of "Wall Street") instead of under the politically tested system of federal-state matching funds, with the federal share coming from regular appropriations. The program would have been placed outside the annual appropriations control of Congress, a surrender of power unlikely to appeal to Congressmen. Also, at George Humphrey's insistence, the road-building costs would not have been figured in the national debt. ("The end of honest bookkeeping," snapped Byrd...
...will get a dress rehearsal in Washington. To demonstrate its Phonevision system of toll TV to FCC, Congressmen and a broadcasters' convention this week, Zenith Radio Corp. has teamed up with WMAL-TV to transmit live programs and special movies during the morning hours to some 50 Zenith receivers set up in the capital...
...Southern Congressmen (including Speaker Sam Rayburn), fearing the two new states would dilute their anti-civil rights voting bloc, were strongly against the measure...
Massachusetts Congressmen (including Republican Leader Joe Martin) were acutely aware that one of the House seats to be given Alaska and Hawaii would be from their state, which barely qualified for its present number of seats under the last population apportionment. Said Massachusetts Republican Donald Nicholson: "We will elect somebody in Hawaii or Alaska to represent my state." Chimed in South Carolina's W.J.B. (for William Jennings Bryan) Dorn: "Is it not true that if our friend from Massachusetts were to lose his seat ... he will lose it to a man whom we have deported...