Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American flag, took a brand-new one from a box and ran it up the staff. Then he quickly lowered it, raised the old flag and, clutching the new one, crept back downstairs. All year long, U.S. Capitol policemen go through this same ritual. They are fulfilling requests from Congressmen for flags that have "flown over the Capitol." Police Private Dix C. Boone (the Capitol's flag-raising specialist) spends as much as two hours a day, raising and lowering 40 or more flags...
...Five Congressmen shot by Puerto Rican Nationalists...
...Benson, it scolded him in a resolution for removing "cross-compliance" regulations, which prohibit farmers who accept high support prices and quotas on one money crop from diverting acres made idle by their quotas to other surplus crops. The provision has been unpopular with some farmers and Farm Bloc Congressmen, but the Farm Bureau feared its loss would swell surpluses. The convention also resolved to oppose any attempt to revive high, rigid supports. As Benson himself put it in his convention speech: "Maximum progress can come only if agriculture is free . . . with a very minimum of Government control...
...Some Congressmen agreed that the plan offered a solution to the need for trained men in the reserves who have not seen any real military duty...
...Eleven million men and 10 million women have written their Congressmen...