Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This applause did not mean that many Congressmen or other influential Americans agreed with Rhee's specific proposals. The speech was widely regarded as "provocative" and "ill-timed," and the New York Times wrung its hands so hard over it that its editorial knuckles almost cracked...
...Democratic move to send back to committee the massive tax-revision bill. The Democrats wanted to raise individual exemptions and wipe out the proposed deductions of dividend income. Rather than argue his case on the House floor, which he does infrequently, Martin called a caucus of G.O.P. Congressmen...
...Patiently posed (separately) for pictures with eleven G.O.P. Congressmen facing tough or marginal election contests this year...
Cake Eaters. Was there anything wrong with this? Builder Gross did not think so. Neither did another builder, Bertram Bonner of Richmond, who had made $1,000,000 in windfall profits. He pointed out that FHA regulations had been drawn to give builders a liberal incentive, and Congressmen had been well aware at the time that costs might be less than the mortgages. Said Bonner: "I find it a source of disappointment that our acts are criticized instead of praised...
...freedom of my country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...