Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opposition of Congressmen...
During the proposed vigil, the Harvard group plans to sit quietly in the Yard, answering questions and distributing leaflets, while their Brandeis counter-parts take to the Waltham streets in a similar effort urging housewives, students, and other interested citizens to write letters of protest to Congressmen and to government officials of both the Soviet Union and the United States...
Last week Coach Lombardi was glumly writing Congressmen in hopes of getting his star halfback's Army reporting date postponed for 90 days. Hornung himself was frankly unhappy at the prospect of a year in second-class accommodations. But, wisely, he said little. "It didn't come as a complete surprise," he said, resignedly. "If I have to serve, I'll serve...
Madison Avenue Mutation. A great many U.S. Congressmen send newsletters home to their constituents. From Manhattan's Wall Street, and from the financial quarters of other U.S. cities, pour market newsletters by the hundreds, if not thousands, most of them free. Rare is the big bank that does not publish a newsletter; New York's First National City Bank has been distributing one since 1904, for a readership that now embraces college students, housewives, small children and Latin Americans (separate Spanish and Portuguese editions) as well as financiers and businessmen. House organs, especially those produced by Madison Avenue...
...Speaker for 17 years, more than twice as long as his nearest competitor, Henry Clay. He served with-Rayburn rejected the word under-eight Presidents, through three wars and countless world crises. In nearly half a century on Capitol Hill, Rayburn watched and guided more than 3,500 Congressmen, including Jack Kennedy. Rayburn was a careful leader and a firm believer in the art of the possible. "My experience with the speakership," he once said, "has been that you cannot lead people by driving them. Persuasion and reason are the only ways. In that way, the Speaker has power...