Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 25 members opposed the nomination; another estimate put the opposition at ten. Finch assured Nixon that his appointee had the pluck and wit to ride out the storm. Meanwhile, the A.M.A.'s lobby operation was not idle. Hints began to circulate that Knowles proposed socialized medicine. Congressmen found that the A.M.A. was even propagandizing their family doctors...
...Education and Welfare. But the job had been vacant since the new Administration took office, though HEW Secretary Robert Finch had selected Dr. John Knowles in January. After a final week of embarrassing indecision, the Administration yielded to the concerted pressure of organized medicine and a handful of conservative Congressmen. Knowles was dumped and Finch humiliated...
...Effort. Explaining the Administration's view, Mitchell said: "We have come to the firm conclusion that voting rights are no longer a regional issue. They are a national concern for every American which must be treated on a nationwide basis." His rationale failed to impress committee members, liberal Congressmen and the only other witness to testify last week, Clarence Mitchell of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...become increasingly alarmed by the shrinkage of its trade surplus from $7 billion in 1964 to less than $1 billion last year. Washington has reacted by putting up barriers against products as diverse as Mexican tomatoes and European and Japanese steel. Since January, Congressmen have filed 300 bills to restrict imports of lamb, baseball gloves, artificial sweeteners and other products...
...fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved U.S. businessmen contend, is that Japan has been flooding American markets with goods made at far lower wage rates than any U.S. company could get away with paying. Some $400 million worth of textiles were notable among those exports. Southern Congressmen have set up a rising clamor for quotas to restrain the influx, and the textile issue has become a symbolic...