Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some erstwhile Congressmen have registered as lobbyists or established legal practices in the city. Ernest McFarland of Arizona lobbies for Western Union and RCA, and Missouri's Albert Reeves looks after the interests of the Dominican Republic. Former Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a brilliant lawyer, represents Robert R. Young and a group of railroads. Other lobbyists are James P. Kem of Missouri, Fred Hartley Jr. of the Taft-Hartley Act, Scott Lucas of Illinois. Gerald P. Nye is now the president of a records-management and microfilm company, hasn't been in North Dakota in years. Joe Ball...
...which Senator William Langer's Judiciary Subcommittee was spawning constitutional changes. In rapid succession last week, Langer recommended to the full committee, which he also heads, amendments to 1) abolish poll taxes, 2) give the President the power to veto individual items in appropriation bills, and 3) lengthen Congressmen's, terms from two years to four. Since his brief hearings on these matters were largely unencumbered by the presence of other Senators, Chairman Langer got subcommittee approval by quick telephone calls to his colleagues. This procedure has also placed before the full committee amendments to 1) let governors...
...Galeao field one day last week. "Special for President Chamoun," said the inscription, and on board was the chief executive of Lebanon, first Middle Eastern head of state ever to visit South America. In the welcoming committee surrounding President Getulio Vargas, Camille Chamoun noted six Congressmen of Lebanese descent. Said he, "I already feel at home...
...strange that some conservative Congressmen feel concerned that educational programs of the foundations set up by three of America's most influential industrialists are really designed to build a welfare state in America. Yet the Reece Committee won its initial appropriation last July by claiming that it could uncover the Communist roots beneath the "diabolical conspiracy whose aim is the furtherance of socialism in the United States...
South Korean Congressmen earn $78 a month and-in the eyes of highhanded old Syngman Rhee-aren't worth even that. Rhee has publicly branded individual legislators as "nincompoops" and "opportunists," and has privately described the Republic's unicameral Assembly as "probably the worst legislative body in the world...