Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words that Congressmen speak in debate are duly entered in that chrestomathy of tedium, the Congressional Record, then laid aside to gather dust and oblivion. But a fortnight ago, the words of a former Congressman were remembered, and they helped solve a problem for the Senate committee considering whether to censure Joseph R. McCarthy...
...level, needed in wartime to encourage food production in the face of shortages and inflation, was due to go out within two years after President Truman declared war's end in 1946. But farm-bloc Congressmen of both parties found that 90% was the sweetest manna in the political crib. Democrats conveniently forgot that in prewar 1938, Congress set the basic-crop price-support floor at only 52%; retrospectively, they sold 90% supports as a New Deal measure. Every two years, Congress extended the 90% supports, and farm surpluses piled up in Government storage houses. Example:the U.S. owns...
Knight wanted his Southern California campaign manager, Insurance Executive Howard Ahmanson, named vice chairman of the state central committee-a job that would almost automatically make him state chairman next term. A bloc of Nixon's closest political friends, including Congressmen Pat Hillings, Carl Hinshaw and Joe Holt and Republican Glamour Girl Mildred Younger, came to the convention with other plans. The Nixon group backed Rancher Ray Arbuthnot for the job. They held a press conference, at which Hillings said: "Governor Knight conceded . . . that he is trying to control the Republican Party by pressure and brute force." Knight answered...
...come back with an all-out attack on McKay. In Idaho, where Hell's Canyon is a burning issue, some pro-McKay candidates lost last week's primaries. In Montana, Fair-Dealing Senator James Murray is campaigning against McKay rather than his opponent. In Washington, two Republican Congressmen (Walt Horan and Russell Mack) have disassociated themselves from McKay's policy. In Oregon, McKay's own state, he is blamed for the shortage of kilowatts which requires dimouts. The Oregon issue is as clear as mountain air: a victory for Journalist Dick Neuberger, the Democratic senatorial candidate...
...Waste in domestic spending comes to Congressmen's attention sooner and more surely than waste in foreign spending. ¶ The bill calls for $800 million for "a war that is no longer being waged" in Indo-China, although $450 million worth of equipment is "stacked on the docksides" and another $600 million is already in the Indo-China pipeline. ¶ Long realized that the new money for Indo-China might not be spent there, but be transferred to other areas. Said he: the other areas will have enough money without...