Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trials on perjury charges he was convicted and sent to prison. Freed after some 44 months in Lewisburg federal prison, Hiss continued to plead his innocence. To this day, he has remained for some an American Dreyfus, persecuted by the far right for the crime of being a liberal Democrat, his case a disturbing prelude to McCarthyism. To others, the facts call for a different interpretation: Hiss is a modern day Benedict Arnold...
...investigators to Metairie, La., to examine the records of four offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico that have reported sharp production declines. Says Andrus: "If it appears that gas has been withheld, then we will move into a larger investigation." A House commerce subcommittee headed by California Democrat John E. Moss announced it would open hearings into possible gas withholding in a week or two. Finally, President Carter let it be known that if evidence of impropriety turned up, he may direct Energy Adviser James Schlesinger to start a full-scale probe of gasmen's production policies...
...Hill that the rebate plan will pep up demand enough to cut quickly into unemployment. On the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York, the ranking Republican, likens the passing out of $50 checks to everyone to "dropping money out of airplanes"; New York Democrat Otis Pike grumbles that there must be a better way to create jobs...
...Yahoo!" whooped Robert Byrd, the Senate majority leader. Standing on the dais in a crowded Washington banquet room, the usually dour West Virginia Democrat tore off his dinner jacket, rolled up his sleeves, picked up a fiddle and began sawing away. Some 1,300 hand-clapping, foot-stomping guests at the Washington Press Club's annual salute to Congress followed him through rousing choruses of Rye Whiskey, Cumberland Gap and the new Administration's anthem, Amazing Grace. "My word," cried one amused Senator, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings, "they're going to have us all born...
...members of his new Administration, all freshly sworn in and now making their first foray out on the Washington dinner circuit. One by one, the freshmen Congressmen at the Press Club bash rose to offer irreverent toasts to the new boys in the Executive Branch. Cracked Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar: "It is nice to know that you can Dial-A-Prayer and get the President of the United States to answer...