Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sued for telling the press that his "first official act" would be to suspend two employees who had been mixed up in a manipula: tion of ORS funds; and 2) Admiral W. E. Howard Jr., who, as commanding officer of the Boston Naval Shipyard, reported to Congressmen-with copies to the press -that the shipyard would soon withdraw recognition of a union, and was sued by the union...
...damned liar," exploded the Chief Justice of the United States at a Washington cocktail party last week. Heads turned amid the crush of Justices, Senators, Congressmen and newsmen to see Earl Warren face off against Earl Mazo, 40, New York Herald Tribune reporter and author of the notably fair-minded new biography, Richard Nixon, a Political and Personal Portrait (see BOOKS...
...hotly contested. At 12:01 a.m. E.D.T., the first 49-star flags in the domestic U.S. were unfurled from the U.S. Capitol, and at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. At the Capitol arm-weary policemen raised and lowered 1,072 new flags on four flagpoles so that Congressmen could mail favored constituents new flags authentically flown over Washington in the first day; the cops took about 30 seconds to clamp each flag to the halyard, haul it up and drop it down again into a red, white and blue mailing...
Many of the Congressmen who obediently voted for Nehru's resolutions insisted privately that they were against them. The Times of India labeled the plan a "distribution of poverty," and Frank Moraes, well-known editor of the Indian Express, called it "a cowardly alibi for collectivism." Critics raised the specter of farm collectives and feared India was headed toward the "communes" of Red China. Nehru at first railed at these "phantom fears," then grew more bitter, finally snapped: "Well, if it comes to Communism...
ALONG with the trust of the White House (he talks to President Eisenhower almost every day), Quesada has won the respect of almost everyone in Washington. When the House cut FAA's budget, he did not blame Congressmen, instead admitted: "I failed personally in not being able to convince the subcommittee of the urgency of our needs." Returning to the Hill, he turned on all burners-and his very best charm...