Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor leader must always know how the House is leaning on the issues that come before it. To help him, McCormack can always call on the Democratic whip, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, who, with his 15 assistants, can come up with a quick nose count in 24 hours, a firm figure within a week. (In 1955 the whip count indicated reciprocal trade would win by a single vote on the key roll call; the actual count...
...Count. But it is not all that easy. Under the House system as it has evolved over the decades, the floor leader, the Speaker or anyone else must nearly always go through the Rules Committee to get legislation to the floor. The Rules Committee serves as an absolutely necessary check on the flood of bills introduced each session by the members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have...
...Everybody agrees that there is no economic growth in times of deflation. But some economists worry that accepting inflation as inevitable may create great dangers for the economy. "The trouble with a little inflation," says a high Treasury Department official, "is that it tends to accelerate because people will count on it as a way of life. If people resign themselves to it, that makes for false decisions, distortions of value, and an overbuilt, overbought economy that will end up in collapse and controls...
Prince Souphanouvong cried that Phoui's taking of power was "illegal," and some panicky Communist leaders lit out for the protection of North Viet Nam. Souphanouvong could not even count on the two Communist battalions that had been incorporated into the royal army, presumably with the intention of spreading discontent. Both Red battalions had been quietly disarmed and interned in separate camps, each under the custody of a heavily armed and loyal battalion of the royal Laotian army...
...confusion in the Diet rests on these three," he blandly announced. "Therefore, I have no intention of placing them in a responsible position again." If he can get away with these shifts, and get re-elected as party president at the forthcoming Liberal-Democrat meeting, Kishi presumably can count on being Premier for another two years...