Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first session of the U.S. Congress, in 1789, the members of the House and Senate set their own pay at $6 for each day they were present. Since then, from time to time, Congressmen have nudged the figure upward. Last week the 84th Congress, armed with the recommendations of a citizens' commission, gave itself a raise of 50%, from $15,000 to $22,500 a year...
Attempts to revoke last year's tax legislation would undoubtedly face bitter floor fights and strong opposition from a large, stockholding section of the population. The politically profitable illusion that Democratic Congressmen can float twenty dollars of prosperity to every man, woman, and child without causing an inflation, would end. But in abandoning the role of Santa Claus, Democrats would at least deserve the support of the large mass of voters which believes in steeply graduated taxation...
...enthusiastic endorsement to the Wriston Committee's report on improvement in the United States Foreign Service. The State Department, however, still has made no move to gain Congressional authorization for one of the Committee's major proposals, the creation of a national scholarship system for prospective Foreign Service officers. Congressmen have not been so dilatory. The new session had barely opened last month when several cager Representatives introduced bills calling for a National Foreign Service Academy, a plan which the State Department has opposed in the past. Since its officials have freely admitted the urgent need for a more efficient...
Accent on Kinfolk. Congressmen have attacked Administrator McLeod for not cutting through the tangled mass of red tape in the law Congress passed and for delay in processing applications for entry visas. McLeod answers that it took time to build up a staff and to get cases into the processing pipeline (average time per case: six months). Since he now has a staff of 2,000, however, his performance is ten refugees admitted for each employee...
...than the squat, 5-ft. 7-in. Serge. In 1941 he married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...