Word: congressmen
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...executive committee also decided to initiate a letter-writing campaign in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Students throughout the Boston area will be urged to write letters to their congressmen and to politically influential members of their local communities calling for the ouster of the five congressmen from Mississippi...
...most important political event in 1965." By emphasizing the need for new, federally controlled elections in Mississippi, SNCC admitted that only the national government is powerful enough to solve the voting problem. Between now and July, SNCC plans to mobilize national support for ousting Mississippi's five regular congressmen, and to send 2,000 students to Washington in late June to lobby for the challenge...
That night, the President and Mrs. Johnson hosted the third in a series of ten White House receptions for Congressmen and their wives. While the women joined Lady Bird in the White House television theater for a movie on White House history, the Congressmen talked shop with Johnson and several top aides. Two nights later the Johnsons held a similar reception. This time the feature attraction was a color film, to be televised nationwide this spring, called "Paintings in the White House: A Close...
...ease the shortage, it recommends a reduction in the silver content from 90% to about 33%; that would keep the Government in the market as a big buyer and at least prevent the price from going any lower. On the other side are the silver users, backed by Congressmen from the industrial East. They are urging the U.S. to eliminate silver completely from new coins and melt down its old coins; they figure that such a move would not only end the shortage but reduce prices by putting the Government out of the silver market...
...series of legal steps-including public hearing in Mississippi and other parts of the country-will keep the dispute from Congress until late June or early July. Then the MFDP, withe the aid of the student lobbyists, hopes to out the congressmen and thereby compel new Mississippi elections...