Word: congressmen
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Rains measure was $500 million over the Administration's own bill. $800 million more than the amount called for in a substitute bill written by Florida's Democratic Representative A. Sydney Herlong and backed by Republican and conservative Southern Democratic Congressmen...
...House of Representatives' chief doorkeeper lifted his voice above the groundswell murmurings of Senators, Congressmen, diplomats, Supreme Court Justices and others in the packed House chamber. "Mr. Speaker," he called out, "the King of the Belgians...
...rough-and-ready Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa last week set out full blast to run down the mild-reforming Kennedy labor bill, which rolled through the Senate (TIME, May 4) and is due up soon in the House. While Hoffa's aides in Washington were buttonholing Congressmen in an effort to kill or soften the bill-aimed principally at the Teamsters' own flagrant abuses of power-Boss Hoffa popped into Nashville to blow the horn not only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. There, before a surprisingly thin crowd of Teamster members...
...that Fidel Castro has talked to Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, 18 Congressmen, has charmed the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and has been interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press [May 4], he has accomplished exactly what he set out to do: get U.S. Government approval and the approval of the people of the U.S. for his coming invasion of Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
...down in Washington for its 47th annual meeting. A top item on the agenda was an annual policy statement that was expected to repeat the chamber's traditionally liberal view of foreign trade, plumping for reduction of tariffs and elimination of quotas. Only a week before, four Congressmen at the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington had warned that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing the rope, bicycle, textile, brass and copper industries, all hard hit by foreign competition, they huddled...