Word: congressmen
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Second Enemy. NATO claims that 9,000,000 Americans have signed its petitions, and 21 Congressmen have drafted bills to ban subscription TV. So far, the proposed legislation has not stirred much interest on Capitol Hill. NATO's other resort is a suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit contesting the authority of any FCC licensing...
...Rascals. Unlike many other columnists, Pearson was not ideologically predictable. He was a New Deal liberal, but he attacked F.D.R. for trying to pack the Supreme Court as enthusiastically as he later crusaded against Senator Joseph McCarthy. Over the years, disclosures in Pearson's column sent four Congressmen to jail and led to the resignation of officials from Sherman Adams on down. He accused General MacArthur of lobbying for his own promotion (MacArthur sued and lost) and was the first to report the General George S. Patton slapping incident...
...presenting the program, Tommy and Dick are not exactly plunging bravely into the unknown. The Canadian commercial network transmitted the show on schedule last spring, and ever since, Tommy has toured the U.S., screening the tape for Congressmen, Federal Communications commissioners and the press. The viewers' overwhelming reaction was that the program was not only inoffensive, but probably one of the best Brothers shows of the season...
...Gregory. "All they were giving me," he said, "was passport instructions." Gregory claims to have it on good authority that last year some 160 double agents were executed, or ordered executed, by Americans. Because of this, the harsh treatment meted out to the eight baffles observers in Saigon and Congressmen in Washington. Gregory wonders aloud how any of the men can be charged with murder when "any killing that might have been done was in the carrying out of a lawful order...
...growth of national politics with a universal franchise and universal publicity has made it much harder for a public figure to hide his indiscretions. Only politicians with safe constituencies can carry on the way they used to. By pacifying their constituents with assorted favors, Congressmen as diverse as South Carolina's hard-drinking Mendel Rivers and Harlem's high-living Adam Clayton Powell are still able to ride out allegations of impropriety. Where money is concerned the public is more exacting. As a Senator from Massachusetts, Daniel Webster maintained a private fund that had been collected from wealthy...