Word: congressmen
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...Americans have elected Presidents of varying religious faiths-Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Reformed Church in America and even Unitarian. Since the Roman Catholic Church is the largest single religious body in the nation, it is not surprising that we have elected scores of Catholic Congressmen, Senators and Governors. The election of a Catholic President would be fully in keeping with the American political ethic, which makes no distinctions based on race, color or creed...
...American Medical Association immediately damned the plan as the first giant stride to socialized medicine. Congressmen began receiving phone calls from their private physicians, who urged them to vote down Forand's plan but only succeeded in arousing their curiosity. Labor unions scooped up the Forand bill as a major legislative goal. The campaign was helped along when Michigan's Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, 65, longtime (1937-55) president of the Detroit Pipefitters' Local 636, led his Senate subcommittee on aging into eight major cities across the land for well-publicized hearings. It was helped again when...
...named Bernard Lowe came to Clark with a newborn song called Butterfly and an offer to assign 25% of the publisher's royalties to Click Corp.. one of Clark's publishing outfits. "I pointed out that this was unnecessary," Clark explained to the wondering Congressmen. "Lowe insisted ... I again said that it was unnecessary." But royola flowed just the same; after Clark's jockeying made Butterfly a hit, Lowe expressed his joy to the extent...
...Sarnoff's dismal prediction, say pay TV's supporters, merely represents a part of the networks' long lobbying against pay TV. Pay proponents have complained to the FCC that the networks have editorialized against them on the air, formulated a phony "grass roots" campaign to impress Congressmen, taunted kids with the prediction that Rin Tin Tin would disappear if pay TV were authorized...
...spanking new Peking headquarters, Mao and his henchmen changed their tune. With the rural communes so solidly established that 400 million Chinese peasants now eat in community mess halls, the Red commissars were ready to crack down on city dwellers. To the chorused cheers of 1,063 Congressmen, Liu Chieh-po. vice president of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, triumphantly announced that communes had been established in most of China's cities, had been successfully imposed on the majority of urbanites in the three populous northern provinces of Heilungkiang, Honan and Hopei. All told, boasted...