Word: congressmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This would be the first time in U.S. history that Congress found itself forced to legislate compulsory arbitration to avoid a specific strike. The precedent pleased nobody. And although most Congressmen felt they had no choice but to approve the bill, few cared to have their names associated with it. Thus, when a demand was made for a roll-call vote, it was drowned out by cries of "No, no, no!" Then, on a standing vote with names unrecorded, the House passed the bill...
...fact is that "Infant Care" [Aug. 9] has carried pictures of Negro babies since its 1945 edition, so that the pictures in the new edition are in no way an innovation. Our records show that only two Southern Congressmen canceled their allotments...
...sale by the Government Printing Office, some 61,760 copies of the new edition were sold. A total of 169,615 copies of "Infant Care" were distributed to Members of Congress during July-at their request. This set an all-time high in the number of copies requested by Congressmen during any one month...
...nothing but wilderness and a gleam in the eye of then President Kubitschek. Now it is a city of architectural splendor and 300,000 people, most of whom would rather be somewhere else. Housing is scarce, and so is night life. About one-third of the 475 Congressmen and Senators still maintain homes in Rio, a few war ministry bureaucrats even commute daily from Rio, and the foreign ministry, still based in Rio, keeps only a handful of clerks in Brasilia...
Comes Thursday evening in Brasilia, barring the gravest of national emergencies, the city empties as if somebody had pulled a plug. Congressmen slip out of the chamber, pick up their tickets at handy airline booths right in the lobby of the Congress building, and rush to catch the 7:30 Electra...