Word: congressmen
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...some zestful news about each. In Congress, the first impeachment proceedings in Brazilian history were under way against President Getulio Vargas. Acting under an obscure 1950 law allowing anyone to make official charges against the President, a small-time politico put before Congress allegations of assorted presidential wrongdoing. Opposition Congressmen mischievously forced the matter to the floor, and the debate...
...Nurse Geneviève de Galard Terraube, 29, the heroic "Angel of Dienbienphu," was photographed and asked by newsmen whether she will visit the U.S. Geneviève was all for the idea, but her hopes so far are pinned on "a letter telling me that a group of Congressmen were hoping to invite me as an official guest of the U.S." Word drifted around Genoa that Egypt's deposed King Farouk, whose loutish antics have endeared him no more to Italians than to the Egyptians he liberated by departing, had not exactly been blackballed for membership...
...again. Federal payrolls were larger than any Republican had ever presided over-2,500,000 people holding down civilian jobs in Washington, across the land, and all around the world. Instantly, district, county and state bosses turned expectantly toward those traditional dispensers of federal patronage, the national committeemen, the Congressmen and the Senators...
Memoirs & Habits. Of some 1,000 living ex-Congressmen, a quorum is engaged, in Washington and in their home states, in the practice of law. Former Senator Joseph O'Mahoney represents Owen Lattimore, among other clients. Millard Tydings has a partnership with his father-in-law, onetime Ambassador Joseph Davies. Bennett Champ Clark and John Danaher, both former Senators, are judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals. One-third of the Supreme Court-Justices Hugo Black, Harold Burton and Sherman Minton-are former Senators...
Born. To Alvin Morell Bentley, 35, U.S. Representative from Michigan, worst-hit of five Congressmen wounded by Puerto Rican fanatics in the Capitol (TIME, March 8), now fully recovered; and his second wife, Arvella Ann Duescher Bentley, 30: their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: Clark Henry. Weight...