Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Congressmen criticized the court for an uneven decision and promised to hopper several bills to change it. With somewhat better cause, Justice John Marshall Harlan criticized Congress for passing "this ill-defined statute," which compelled seven judges to write six separate decisions that settled the claims of five states by setting two different sets of boundaries...
...Some Congressmen, reported Newsmen Walter Pincus and Don Oberdorfer, took wives along on business trips and in many cases absorbed the extra costs as legitimate expenses, while others apparently used flimsy excuses for making official trips, frequently paid for personal purchases out of their expense money, and did not always make proper reimbursements. Items...
...wants to see you,' said Hagerty, ushering us into Mr. Eisenhower's presence . . . 'Hello, Mr. President,' we exclaimed like a schoolboy . . . T read your column on Mr. Khrushchev; very good.' he complimented . . . Thank you very much.' we gushed. 'Two Congressmen told me they plan putting it into the Congressional Record' . . . 'You nervous about going on?' we inquired . . . 'Should I be?' Ike chuckled . . . 'All of us on the air,' we told him, 'get a little butterflyish as airtime approaches. Don't we, Mr. Montgomery...
...bustling statistician, Bernard Goldstein, offered 300 Ibs. of data and what the Congressmen clearly considered some unnecessarily fast talk to show "the universe, the population, the very census" of songs played on Clark's American Bandstand TV show. "Let the chips fall where they may," said Goldstein, seeking to prove with a blizzard of figures, algebraic formulae and four charts that could have been rainfall maps of the Pentagon that Clark had jockeyed his own songs and those in which he had no financial interest with fine impartiality. But the chips, obviously, had fallen into Clark's pockets...
...Despite everything, at least one group was willing to stick by its boyman: the senior class of Philadelphia's suburban Upper Darby High School wanted to present Clark with a certificate of honor last week "because he talks to us like we are people." But Clark, talking to Congressmen almost as if they were teenagers, was a little too busy to accept...