Word: congresswoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson and Sam Rayburn have declined to serve on the "20-man" Democratic Advisory Committee and the eight persons who already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...
...ambassador, Clare Luce began with a background as journalist, playwright and Congresswoman. Many skilled U.S. diplomats considered her experience insufficient for the Italy of 1953. They thought their doubts justified when Clare Luce, upon her arrival in Italy, warned of the "grave consequences" that might follow if Italian voters "should fall unhappy victims to the wiles of totalitarianism of the right or left." The wisdom of this apparent interference in Italian domestic politics is still hotly debated, although no one yet has been able to demonstrate that it did any harm...
...dive" I chuckled over (TIME'S naiveté) was Al Sarena's mining of timber-but best expressed by Congresswoman Edith Green's quatrain...
Died. Vera Buchanan, 53, Democratic Congresswoman from Pennsylvania who was elected in July 1951 after the death of her husband, Congressman Frank Buchanan, and was twice reelected; after long illness; in McKeesport...
...fight was far from ended. Advocates of public power accused the commission of holding up its decision until after Congress had adjourned. They also charged that Idaho Power rates are so high that they would deter new industry. Said Idaho's Democratic Congresswoman Grade Pfost: "There now can be no doubt that this Administration believes what is best for the power trust is best for the people." Growled Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse: "The Hell's Canyon decision will prove to be the Dixon-Yates deal of the Northwest...