Word: congressmen
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Freeman fought back tooth and nail, wrote to every member of Congress, and denounced "the most bitter, most irresponsible, and most heavily financed attack ever aimed at farm and food legislation." Many Congressmen, while naturally leary of supporting anything that smacked of a bread tax, were al most as perturbed by Orville's increasingly vindictive attitude toward the baking industry. "We should bear in mind," cautioned Illinois' Republican Representative Paul Fintlley, "that Secretary Freeman's office often becomes a propaganda mill and his statements are not always reliable...
...good for Congressmen trying to figure out how to answer mail from their constituents." More experienced hands complained that they had learned nothing new, while many Republicans, leary of any attempt to stifle criticism of the Administration's handling of the war, dubbed the briefings Operation Smother. In a Senate speech last week, Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voiced another reason for concern over the expanding conflict: that the U.S. will be caught in an economic squeeze between the mounting costs of the war and the Administration's ever more ambitious domestic...
...just about everyone in Washington to "come on down to the signin'." In all, he signed five new bills and dispensed no less than 600 souvenir pens worth $1.80 each. At one ceremony a sweating aide lugged the pens around in a market basket. For the throngs of Congressmen, Governors, mayors, foreign ambassadors and civil servants who turned out for the various ceremonies, the President also had a thesaurus of superlatives for each new law and ever more dazzling visions of the Great Society. The Best. At the National Institutes of Health in suburban Bethesda, Md., where he signed...
...million civil service workers, which would increase salaries by 4.5% and cost some $770,000,000 the first year. The Administration's original request would have offered a 3% increase and totaled $406,000,000. The bill called for a raise up to $3,400 for Congressmen, who only this year had their salaries upped from $22,500 to $30,000 a year...
Return to the Raj? The strength of the Syndicate was best demonstrated at the recent meeting of the Congress's All-India Committee in Bangalore (TIME, Aug. 6). There Shastri carefully coaxed his fellow Congressmen into reappointing Kamaraj as party president, thus perpetuating the chance for consensus in the 1967 elections. But the Congress-led by Gandhi strictly as a revolutionary movement-is perverting the purpose for which it was conceived. Gandhi had urged the party to dissolve itself after independence was gained...