Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent to Congress, the Eisenhower Administration had grown steadily more nervous over the violence of the opposition to the proposed $5 billion cut in Air Force appropriations. Major General "Jerry" Persons, the President's liaison man with Capitol Hill, had put in long hours trying to coax dissatisfied Congressmen back into line. Dwight Eisenhower himself had thrown the weight of his military prestige behind the air-power cut in a nationwide radio speech. Last week, fighting to stave off the possibility that Congress might decide to rewrite the budget, the Administration seized on the notion of using public hearings...
...Rather than have either Senators or Congressmen plunge into colleges like so many amateur sleuths, President Eisenhower might appoint a group of distinguished lawyers and judges officially unaffiliated with universities to do the investigating. Such a committee would have a better idea of just what is a subversive influence, and they wouldn't scream every unconfirmed rumor into a banner headline...
...charmingly and successfully lobbied through. When the Army Civil Functions Appropriations, commonly known as the pork barrel, passed the House last week, it was a wan descendant of bygone pork barrels. The bill provided $412,391,600 for dams, bridges, other engineering projects dear to the hearts of Congressmen. With wondrous forbearance, the Representatives resisted the pressures and blandishments of lobbyists and constituents, bravely cut $86,250,000 from the already trimmed-down Eisenhower budget. It was $171,675,000 less than last year's pork appropriation. Congressional thrift touched off speculation about the pending foreign aid bill...
...Holland bill, which returns to the states the control of offshore oil lands within their historic limits. As the bill became law, one of Ike's cardinal campaign promises became fact. He swung around from his desk with a broad grin for the assembled group of Congressmen and Senators-mostly Southern and mostly Democrats-and asked where "Mr. Sam" was. Texas' Sam Rayburn stepped forward, shook hands warmly, and whispered something in the presidential ear which left Ike roaring...
...simple humanity, or 2) a country boy's bewilderment at the big city, or 3) deference to orders from above. Last week Caudle was back before a House subcommittee to explain why he dropped a tax case against one Isadore Alford of Nashville in 1950. This time the Congressmen thought they might have a lead to a fourth motive-influence-when they popped a blunt question: Wasn't it true that Lamar had been taken on a duck hunt, and thus influenced, by Alford's attorney...