Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech took 21 minutes. Then the great solemnity of the moment began to dissolve. It was time for lunch with Congressmen and friends. Still, the process of history in which he had just participated was an affecting thing for Lyndon Johnson. En route to the luncheon, he stopped in his tracks, impulsively, wordlessly, leaned over and kissed his wife on the mouth. Lynda Bird saw it, and she moved up, drew the President's head down and kissed him on both cheeks. Johnson gazed down at Luci Baines, and she too kissed him. Then they walked...
There may have been Congressmen who griped at the brief 92 days between sessions-but not Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell. When the 89th Congress convened last week, Powell was finally free to go home. Such are the paradoxes of being the House's No. 1 fugitive from justice...
...gambling payoffs. With interest, Powell's debt is now close to $51,000. With rare severity, New York has issued a warrant for his civil ar rest. But now that Congress has convened, Solon Powell has once more donned the constitutional toga (Art. I, Sec. 6) that immunizes Congressmen from civil arrest "during their attendance at the sessions of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same...
Between sessions, Powell simply avoids New York, visits such havens as Hawaii in the company of his secretary. (When Congress convenes, he also rarely attends.) But even so, the net is closing. In 1908 the Supreme Court ruled that Congressmen are not immune from criminal as opposed to civil arrest, and New York issued a criminal warrant for Powell last July. It stems from his alleged fraudulent transfer (evading the libel payment) of a $900 check that Esquire paid him for an article ironically titled "The Duties and Responsibilities of a Congress man of the United States." According...
...week announced their intention to sharply cut back close-in commuter service, stranding 7,500 daily passengers, and eventually to discontinue all passenger trains-but they have many legal obstacles to overcome before they can do either. To bail out the New Haven, a group of U.S. Senators and Congressmen from New England and New York called for creation of a multistate agency subsidized by the Federal Government...