Word: congressmen
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...couple of Republican Congressmen, Nebraska's David Martin and Kentucky's Gene Snyder, journeyed South and returned with a tale of dire poverty in Lyndon's own backyard-or, more precisely, Lady Bird's. In Alabama's Autauga County, Lady Bird owns about 3,000 acres of land that she inherited from her family. Much of the land, once cotton-producing, has been turned to timber, but four Negro tenant families still live on some of the property, occupying rundown houses that do more than Lyndon Johnson's words to dramatize poverty...
...America," King says, "is substantially controlled by a few people; it is not a representative government. Congressmen have a vested interest in seeing that America maintains her world hegemony, and they feel it essential to protect this interest." Thus, these leaders will educate their constituencies to accept the Negro...
Next day at 3 p.m., all across the huge land, church bells tolled, artillery boomed, factory whistles screamed and horns blared on thousands of buses, trucks and cars. Before the assembled state Governors, national Congressmen and generals in Brasília's Chamber of Deputies, former General Castello Branco solemnly took the oath of office as his country's 26th President. Said he: "I shall do everything possible to consolidate the ideals of the Brazilian nation when it rose-splendid in courage and decision-to restore democracy and free itself of the frauds and distortions that made...
...which recently has been speaking with a strong, anti-big-government voice, last week began talking in the well-modulated tones of its newly elected president, Detroit Trucking Tycoon Walter F. Carey, 58. Unlike his predecessor, Delaware Banker Edwin P. Neilan, who cried out against federal spending and call Congressmen "bagmen," Carey aims "to make the idea of a great business-government partnership less a cliché and more a productive reality" during his one-year term. Carey, who built a $20 million business fiefdom by pioneering the trucking of new cars from plants to dealers and now has interests...
...came to the Senate from the House, which received it from the Judiciary Committee, which constructed it by fusing President Kennedy's moderate bill with the more ambitious ideas of Congressmen Kastenmeier, Celler, and McCulloch. It consists of eleven Titles, treating voting, education, accomodations, and employment. Titles II and VII have aroused the most controversy, but advocates and opponents agree that few of the Titles can be called minor. The most important Titles...