Word: congressmen
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This January, Mississippi's energetic Freedom Democratic Party will bring five of its members to Washington and ask the House to seat them in place of Jamie Whitten and his colleagues. They will ask this on the grounds that the system of Congressional representation has broken down. Congressmen are supposed to represent their constituents. Few Mississippi Negroes are permitted to vote for Congressmen, and 42 per cent of Mississippians are Negroes...
...When at long last a federal administration has had the good sense and courage to take a positive step to cut out major causes of waste and expense, it is shocking to read that some Congressmen, Senators and Senators-elect are proposing to sabotage this sound decision...
...propaganda, endorsed 354 congressional candidates, giving special attention to 89 marginal House seats, reported spending $894,000, although the actual figure for organized labor was probably closer to $20 million. In the aftermath, the investment looked good: the Administration is beholden to labor, and among the 91 new Congressmen to be sworn in on Jan. 4, more than 50 are considered more favorably inclined to organized labor than their predecessors...
Moses also discussed the challenge which the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party plans to bring in January against the seating of three Mississippi congressmen in the House of Representatives. The challenge is being brought in the names of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, Mrs. Victoria Gray, and Mrs. Annie Devine, three Negro Mississippians who ran against the white Congressmen in "Freedom Elections," conducted in November by the Freedom Party...
...wife committed suicide, Adams gave up the life in Washington where he and Marian had played host to a brilliant circle of politicians and scholars, reflecting that he had become "a sort of ugly, bloated, purplish-blue and highly venomous hairy tarantula which catches and devours Presidents, senators, diplomats, congressmen and cabinet officers." After commissioning Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to build a memorial to Marian in Washington's Rock Creek Park, he took off on a slow boat to the South Seas. Like any tourist, he drank in the "purple mist and souffle" scenery, ogled the fetching island beauties...