Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main Republican argument for postponing the rise is political. (The boost, once scheduled to go into effect in 1943, was postponed after a fight led by the late Senator Arthur Vandenberg.) Some Republican Congressmen argue that the 10% cut in income taxes on Jan. 1 will be more than offset for workers in low tax brackets by the larger social-security payment. Actually, this is a weak argument. At the new rate, unmarried workers will get less take-home pay only if their taxable incomes are under $800 a year: married couples without dependents only if their income is less...
Speaking with two other University professors at the Harvard Young Republican Club forum last night in the Lamont Forum Room, Holcombe explained, "Polls of congressmen indicated a fairly consistent consideration of this issue. Polls of voters, moreover, have shown this to be the prime subject upon which the government must take a stand. With our breaking down of parties, the results of polls of voters will be important in determining election platforms...
...convinced that the hounding of career people by individual Congressmen is very, very wrong. I don't mind holding people responsible for failure, but not for judgement. It is enough now to make a public insinuation to discredit a man in the public eye and deter him from doing his work. Career services should not be a football of politics," he insists...
...recent weeks Syngman Rhee has sat in his mansion at Seoul, listening impatiently to a steady stream of U.S. diplomats, Congressmen and other official visitors telling him he must not disturb the peace, and spelling out the U.S. policy decision not to help him if he tries to go it alone. The news was. hard for Rhee to hear, harder still to accept...
...intended that the Amendment should affect public school segregation, asserting that the use of the Amendment to abolish segregation in schools would be to give it a meaning "directly contrary to that given by its framers." As support for this belief, he pointed out that a majority of the congressmen in 1868, when the Amendment was passed, were from states that favored segregation and they would never have agreed to submit the Amendment if they had believed it would invalidate segregation...