Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been here in the past. For it becomes a little absurd when vague charges are balanced, for example, against the record of 174 Harvard men who are president or directors of the country's hundred largest industrial corporations, the University's eight Nobel prize winners, four senators, twenty-five congressmen, and three governors, to mention only the most prominent. It is then indeed difficult to believe in the 'red' reputation of a university which has been described as the the "last refuge of the Puritan...
...Many Congressmen fear the bill is a threat to particular interests, like the wheat farmers. Still other oppose OTC on the ground that its adoption would surrender too much power to an international agency. The organization, however, would not have supranational powers; it would serve merely as a coordinator of international bargaining for those who chose to use it. Its rules are flexible enough to allow the United States an exemption on the importation of grain. Although OTC would be a permanent organ, it commits the United States to little more than the original General Agreement...
...many Administration leaders have made too many rash statements about the Far Eastern crisis. Although the United States is committed to a peaceful settlement of the crisis, Congressmen, State Department officials, and military authorities have spent much of their time discussing the frightening alternative. The idea of atomic bombs falling on China's densely populated cities has alarmed neutralist-minded Asians everywhere, and many non-Asians as well. "Massive retaliation" may be an eye-catching slogan, but it is time that the Administration re-evaluated its applicability to the facts of possible war in Asia...
...Received from Missouri's Republican Representative Thomas B. Curtis a proposal to amend the Constitution so as to limit the consecutive service of Senators and Representatives to twelve years. Explained Curtis, who is now in his third term: "There are very few Congressmen who come down to Washington with the thought in mind beyond serving a few terms . . . They simply get caught in a fascinating...
...outside for friends of Vietnamese independence, and took off for Europe and the U.S. For the best part of two years (1951-53) he made his home at the Maryknoll Junior Seminary in Lakewood, N.J.. often going down to Washington to buttonhole State Department men and Congressmen and urge them not to support French colonialism. "The French may be fighting the Communists," Diem argued, "but they are also fighting the people...