Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ironies aplenty in the scandal. In 1967, Hays had led an investigation of Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who was charged, among other things, with taking women companions along on official junkets. Powell, perhaps more on target than he realized, replied that he had just been doing what white Congressmen often did but was being hounded because he was black...
...petty, bullying tyrant over House committee staff members and more menial employees that Hays became most hated. He has used his Administration Committee, which oversees such mundane but vital matters as Congressmen's parking spaces, travel allowances, restaurant service and custodial help, to satisfy his vindictive whims. Annoyed that elevator operators were sitting when he had to stand, he ordered their jump seats removed. Irked at House barbers, he raised haircut prices and banned tipping. Mad at the press, he temporarily refused to sign pay vouchers for some press-gallery employees. Hays gained extra influence as chairman...
...mathematics test-not up to the average scores of Harvard or Yale, but well within the reach of such excellent schools as the University of Michigan or Georgia Tech. All of the cadets were nominated for a place in the class by authorized officials, notably U.S. Senators and Congressmen. Many had wanted to enter West Point since early in their high school days or even before, and 13.4% had fathers who were career military officers...
...began to shower letters and phone calls on some 100 bureaucrats and politicians, including Congressmen and Senators-with little response. He tried to phone President Ford and Henry Kissinger but never got through. He made four personal pleas to the rebels, including a radio appeal that Radio Ethiopia never broadcast. He went on U.S. local television more than 30 times for interviews and personal entreaties. When the rebels threatened to execute his son last fall unless the U.S. handed over $5 million ransom and dismantled its military bases in Ethiopia, he stepped up his appeals to the State Department...
Catch 22. The Congressmen were screening video tapes of Midnight Blue, an hour-long soft-core TV program that until last month was seen weekly on public-access channel J of Manhattan Cable Television, a subsidiary of Time Inc. Blue had been blacked out by Manhattan Cable, explained Vice President Charlotte Schiff Jones, because of a "catch 22" of conflicting regulatory requirements...