Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political force, the Klan was incredibly effective. It was a key issue in the 1924 and 1928 presidential conventions and campaigns, as well as in hundreds of local elections. Klan organizations elected judges, mayors and other city officials, sheriffs, state legislators, and even some Governors, Senators and Congressmen. Many politicians joined the K.K.K. out of fierce conviction, others merely in order to survive. Alabama's Hugo Black became a member, but he quit in 1925, a year before he was elected a Democratic U.S. Senator; in 1934, after F.D.R. named him to the Supreme Court, Black repudiated racism...
...Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia was nearly deserted when Justice Minister Milton Campos walked briskly up to the speaker's platform. Brazilian Congressmen rarely listen to speeches with more than half an ear, much less to a routine government spiel. It was far from that. "The government," announced Campos, "wants elections. It wants them clean, authentic, democratic, and it will promote them with full guarantees of liberty...
...Young Dems will also see Sargent arriver, director of the Peace Corps and of the Office for Economic Opportunity, Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. '37, Congressmen Hale Boggs (D-La.) and Henry S. Duss...
...attrition rate for state Governors had become notorious well before 1962. Commentators noticed that increasingly large numbers of Governors were rejected by the voters between 1956 and 1963, although most U.S. Senators, Representatives, and state legislators were routinely re-elected. But fewer observers noticed that Governors, unlike Congressmen, had to bear the brunt of rising costs in education...
...tested administrator and, as a Republican, also wanted Washington-wise Democrat Fowler to help push fiscal policies through a Democratic Congress. As chief lobbyist for the Administration's 1964 tax-cut bill. Fowler pored over the Congressional Record daily, analyzing countless pages of debate, spent hours wheedling Congressmen in the halls-and played a major role in finally getting the measure passed. However, Fowler tangled with Kennedy Economic Adviser Walter Heller. Their differences were mostly kept behind the scenes. But Fowler questioned Heller's economic forecasting and political judgment, was irritated by what he deemed Heller...