Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxes, not the history books in publishing the Yalta documents at this time. Curiously enough, the Department had first scheduled the issuance of the Yalta volume for October, 1954, just a month before the Congressional election. Violent objections from the British Foreign Office stopped publication then. But leading Republican Congressmen have kept up steady pressure for release of the documents, and the Department finally decided to go ahead last week despite the obvious British objection...
These same Republican Congressmen are already denouncing the Democrats with renewed violence for alleged mistakes at the famous parley. Again they have conjured up the spectre of Alger Hiss at Yalta--thanks to the State Department's thoughtful inclusion of Hiss' conference note sin the Yalta volume. These jottings reveal little more, however, than that Hiss could easily fail a college history course because of poor note-taking...
...long time to come. As Prime Minister Churchill pointed out in his remarkably restrained comments on the release of the documents, diplomacy is simply impossible if diplomats must fear that a record of every exchange of views will be promptly delivered into the eager hands of Congressmen and newspapermen...
...Bulls & a Bank Roll. While the final vote was overwhelming (223-113 in the House, a shouted voice vote in the Senate), the Congressmen acted only after hearing some caustic words about their own worth. The sharpest comments came from North Dakota's sharp old (76) Republican Representative Usher L. (for Loyd) Burdick, a lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books and a Congressman for 16 years.' In the first place, said Burdick, some of his colleagues were not being honest when they called their present salary $12,500 a year, and failed to mention their...
...lose more than that if you plan it. I tried it a couple of months, and it has taken all of my salary and the proceeds of two of the best Black Angus bulls you ever saw. But I have noticed something funny about these Congressmen who lose $400 a month. When their term has expired, they come right back to lose $400 a month more . . . You say you are going to get better men if you raise the salary . . . But if you agree to that doctrine and vote for more, you agree that you should not be here...