Word: congressmen
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...then recruited four other marine officers and six enlisted men to help him dispose of the body. The U.S. made a pro forma apology to Castro. Then, Anderson wrote, the Marine Corps eased four of the officers out of the service and hushed up the affair. Two Republican Congressmen from Pennsylvania-Richard S. Schweiker and Herman T. Schneebeli-said they had appealed to the Marine Corps without success to reinstate Lieut. William A. Szili. Szili, now a Norristown, Pa., insurance salesman, said he was reluctant to talk because he had been told that he might face a $10,000 fine...
Petty patronage has, in fact, become almost a regular element of Federal hiring procedures. Political patronage is dispensed chiefly through Senators and Congressmen, with the party in office naturally distributing the bulk of the prizes. Less familiar, bureaucratic nepotism guarantees positions to job-seekers with pull--influential friends in the government. This abuse annually accounts for thousands of summer appointments...
Today it is richer and fatter than ever. The speakers program that was almost nonexistent five years ago now brings Congressmen so frequently that one Midwestern representative recently stormed into the Republican National Committee in Washington to charge that only ten YR's came out to hear him at Harvard. HYRC leaders explained there had been a club event the night before the Congressman's visit and another coming up two nights later; they were more surprised by the charges than embarbarrassed...
...really. After all, the bill just contained too many goodies for too many Congressmen. The measure offered the possibility of public works to 266 congressional districts. Indeed, the program had already furthered 862 projects in 99 districts represented by Republicans...
...work. Majority Whip Hale Boggs and his staff, worried about Democrats who had already left for their Easter vacations, got on the phone, persuaded dozens, including six from California, to return for the vote. At White House urging, labor organizations, along with local-government groups, began calling and wiring Congressmen, telling them what the money would mean to the old home town. Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman inserted in the Congressional Record a 33-page list of all the communities that had applied for money under the bill. All this activity enraged Charlie Halleck. "They were really bludgeoning...