Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York housewife, after praising the patriotism of inquiring Congressmen, suggested, "I think the professors and students of colleges should get their ideological education in the Korean trenches, where communists are killing American boys. I do not believe inexperienced youth can judge any ideology objectively, from professors who taught Alger Hiss, Lee, Pressman and other disloyal Harvard graduates...
...patronage boss, Hall's No. 1 chore will be to streamline the processing of Republican job seekers. Basically, this means careful clearance with Congressmen and state political bosses before making appointments. Sherman Adams, crusty, hard-working ex-governor of New Hampshire, at first often overlooked this clearance. Then, when the squawks began, he grew so cautious that his office became a bottleneck. Another sore point among state and local partymen: the tendency of eager new Republican bureau heads to hurry the hiring of subordinates, thus bypassing patronage channels...
While Weeks must take the blame for this fiasco, the 24 Senators who influenced his decision should not escape unrevealed. It is common practice for congressmen to ask an executive body to review a decision. In this way, many unfair judgments are reversed. But in Astin's case, the 24 letters exerted such pressure that they outweighed scientific tests...
That is why it is so disturbing that, just as the peace through strength policy is beginning to pay dividends, there has been a growing desire to soft-pedal this whole policy. Scarcely two days after the Communists gave in on the prisoner issue, Congressmen began to talk up large cuts in the defense budget. At least two billion seems sure to go, with more slices in the offing. Secretary Dulles has quietly scuttled the Point Four program. The NATO countries seem to have lost the will to agree, they are certainly not meeting their manpower quotas...
...Upset. The stories rocked the White House and Capitol Hill. The President's office was harried by alarmed calls from Congressmen and U.N. representatives. To White House newsmen, Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty hurriedly issued a strong denial: "The reported Administration policy on Formosa and Korea is without foundation in fact." The Administration, he continued, had neither 1) considered a U.N. trusteeship for Formosa, nor 2) reached any conclusion about a partition of Korea...