Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speaker Nicholas Longworth purged 13 Republican Congressmen from their important committee assignments as punishment for supporting the presidential candidacy of Progressive Robert La Follette (four Senators, including La Follette himself, were also stripped of their committee rank...
...House Office Buildings were warrens of chaos, as defeated Congressmen took their time about moving out and their successors queued up impatiently to move in. Last week 55 Congressmen-elect drew lots for new office suites (Pennsylvania Republican Dick Schweiker, drawing Lot No. 55, found there was no more space available, will have to wait until an office can be found). The quest for jobs on the Hill was becoming frantic. Surprisingly, many of the most anxious Capitol job seekers were Democrats: with 45 new Republican representatives, and only 18 new Democrats, a few secretaries of outgoing Democratic Congressmen were...
...mood of expectancy swept through Washington. It lurked in the crowded corridors of the Capitol Building, where returning Congressmen jostled painters touching up the Brumidi frescoes, buzzed through the downtown Democratic clubs and patronage offices, rang out in the lilt of High Hopes and Walking Down to Washington among the New Year's Eve dancers at Chevy Chase Club and in the jammed hotel ballrooms. Along Pennsylvania Avenue, workmen rushed new tiers of spectator stands for John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inaugural parade, and the requests for tickets reached blizzard stage...
Every year, State Department officials, foreign services officials, congressmen, columnists, and scholars, like salmon swimming upstream, come together to shout about the inadequacy of entertainment allowances for U.S. diplomats. "The total annual budget for 100 embassies and 350 consulates is $850,000"; it is an old and familiar grievance...
...benefits that would accrue are almost dazzling. No longer would the country's progress be obstructed or impeded by Southern Congressmen hoary with seniority and ready to invoke the filibuster whenever their sectional demands are thwarted. No longer would the law-abiding states of the Union be dismayed by the doings of the Faubuses and the Davises and other rabblerousers...