Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapons might be used to defoliate jungle supply trails. Said he: "We defoliate every day. Using an atomic bomb to defoliate is like using an atomic bomb to light a cigarette. We use weed killer." Lodge also clashed head on with the report of a committee of 13 Republican Congressmen, led by Michigan's Gerald Ford, which scored the Kennedy Administration for actively aiding the overthrow of the Diem regime. Lodge angrily denied that the Administration had been involved in any way. Ford advised that American officers now be given direct command of Vietnamese troops, instead of remaining merely...
...House Commerce Committee meeting last week, several critical Congressmen talked tough to Federal Trade Commission Chief Paul Rand Dixon. They wanted him to forget his plan to make cigarette manufacturers place poisonlike warning labels on their product. It was too late, replied Dixon, who then shocked everybody by disclosing that the order had already been written. Distributing copies to the Congressmen, he remarked somewhat sarcastically: We had our printers working all night in case you wanted one." The timing was surprising, and so was the harshness of the order. If the FTC got its way, the cigarette makers would have...
Speaking for the industry, Reynolds Tobacco Chairman Bowman Gray called the order " unwise, unwarranted." Tobacco men charged that the FTC had exceeded its authority, made plans to test the case in the courts. They got plenty of support from Southern Governors and Congressmen. Officials in the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Health, Education and Welfare wondered whether they should have jurisdiction in the matter instead of the in dependent FTC - or whether any labeling rule should be enforced at all. Even some of the sharpest critics of the industry questioned the legality and propriety of the order. Surgeon General Luther...
Pffft went the tires of the Ghana Ambassador, three federal Congressmen, one state assemblyman, and a plainclothes detective shadowing a suspect. One squad of cops was discovered gleefully flattening the tires of 35 legally parked cars, until someone pointed out the error. When police moved in on six illegally parked official cars they almost came to blows with some marines on guard; a squad of battle-dressed tommy gunners was eventually called up to protect the wheels' wheels...
...Midwest is growing more slowly than other regions because such fast-growth industries as aerospace and defense have drifted to areas that boast a gentler climate and more persuasive Congressmen. Compared with the same period last year, personal income during the first quarter rose scarcely 5% in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa. But auto-booming Michigan gained almost 8% , and the unemployment rate there is down...