Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alarmed at the invasion of the domestic market, U.S. publishers prodded the State Department to protest. Previous protests against the export of Formosan copies to Asian countries hai little effect. This time the State Department hinted that mutual-security funds earmarked for Nationalist China might be pared by irate Congressmen if the pirating did not cease. The hint did not go unheeded. At week's end the Nationalist government issued a stern order forbidding the export ot reprints from Formosa...
...criticism of Administration policies, front-running Republican Richard Nixon is on a ledge: so long as he is a member of the Eisenhower team, he cannot risk a serious party split by taking out after Agriculture Secretary Benson. Last week Dick Nixon told a group of farm-state Congressmen of a politically momentous decision: he intends to cut himself off from the Administration's agriculture record later this summer by presenting his own farm program-despite Ezra Benson's own recent statements that he had Nixon's support...
...news leaked out after Nixon met in his office with Iowa's five Republican Congressmen-Ben Jensen, Charles Hoeven, Fred Schwengel, H. R. Gross and John Kyl.* The lowans, who sought the meeting to measure Nixon's stand on farm policies, blasted Ezra Benson, cited the painful and growing surplus situation and the severe drop in farm income (which in 1959 sank no less than 16% or $2.1 billion from 1958). They warned Nixon that the Democrats would probably pass a wild cornucopia of a farm bill that Ike would have to veto. The political consequences in farm...
...areas and collect on-the-spot facts, figures and information on attitudes to help him formulate a workable program. Such a program, he said, will be ready for a campaign plank after the Republican Convention, and hopefully it will be a good one, so that neither he nor G.O.P. Congressmen will have to run on Ezra Benson's record. Nixon added that he plans a hard campaign through the Middle West and particularly in towns under 10,000 population, where he can talk to farmers. Said Ben Jensen: "Nick,* you will honor every small town in America...
...service with FAA. Right off, he told a black-tie dinner at the National Aviation Club in Washington about his plans for the Air Age and his awareness of the dangers. "There is a lot to learn in Washington about cannibals," he informed a big audience packed with Congressmen, Senators and blue-ribbon aviation-industry executives, "but I don't intend to be chewed . . . I don't intend to get caught in Washington like the girl with the Gleem...