Word: congressmen
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...irritated Congressmen and State department officials are not criticizing Stassen's idea for increased Asiatic aid on its own merit. They recognize that nearly 5,000 experts have been trained since the Columbo's formation in 1950. Without the skills of these new technicians the recent agricultural and industrial progress would have been impossible. Likewise, there is little objection to Stassen's argument that Asia needs the money diverted from the Indo-China crisis more than Europe does. And now that Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines have joined the plan, U.S 'help is especially necessary for the Columbo programs...
Congress fears the power of men like Stassen, and in the past has paralyzed foreign policies simply to show its independence. In acting alone, Stassen unwittingly bolstered the arguments of Congressmen who want to place further legislative controls over the executive department. Government leaders now recognize that diplomacy cannot depend on the efforts of a single man. But Stassen's action serves as a poor example in the attempt to win a unified executive and legislative front for foreign affairs...
...task of investigating Joe McCarthy ("A very unpleasant task," said Watkins). But when the job was finished, Watkins was satisfied that it had been done right. Every committee decision was unanimous; not once did politics enter into the deliberations. While Committee counsel E. Wallace Chadwick (a former Republican Congressmen from Chester, Pa.) helped, most of the report was written in sections by individual members of the committee...
...government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into the army. Last week, fearing further inflationary walkouts, he decreed a mild form of martial law that empowers the government to arrest its opponents, unless they are Congressmen...
Sternly trying not to look over his shoulder at political hobgoblins, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson last week announced that a ruling known as "total acreage allotment" would be abolished. Farmers and farm-bloc Congressmen have complained more loudly about it than about flexible price supports...