Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting for President Johnson to sign the bill last week, some Congressmen were afraid that something worse might still be ahead. The bill bars monopolies, re-establishes the principle of community benefit, allows the Justice Department 30 days to object to mergers it dislikes. But the wording is so vague that it will almost certainly end up in the courts again for definition. If the Supreme Court stands by its earlier Clayton antitrust opinion, the whole commotion could start all over again...
Albitson said that this project, which proposed by Massachusetts congressmen is the first study ever of the entire Charles River. Only studies of parts of the river and a few of its problems have made over the last 70 years...
...party. Not only that, but since Castello Branco has already decreed that the President is to be elected by Congress instead of by popular vote, and since Castello Branco controls Congress, he could presumably defeat Costa e Silva. It would be a simple matter. At presidential instructions, the government Congressmen would vote for the opposition candidate, leaving the opposition minority no choice but to vote for the government candidate -or be accused of disloyalty to democratic principles...
...dinner, Kennedy briskly divided up the group, taking Clifford and Sorensen into one room, asking Neustadt to wait in another room, Shriver in still another. When Neustadt's turn arrived, Kennedy raised questions about some of the things his advisers had told him he must do as President -- receiving Congressmen, for example, whenever they requested an appointment. Neustadt said that there were few imperatives in the Presidency; he should feel free to work it out in his own way. He then handed Kennedy a copy of Presidential Power, recommending that he read chapters three and seven ("The Power to Persuade...
...fashioned kind of orator who held pastorates at Chickasha, Okla., St. Joseph, Mo., and Wichita Falls, Texas (where he first preached to Johnson in 1959), before coming to National City in 1961. Even without presidential patronage, it was a flattering call. National City's worshipers have traditionally included Congressmen and Senators; among those who frequently attend these days are Generals Omar Bradley and Maxwell Taylor...