Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's McClellan committee, ready to head for the nearest exit and away from Washington at a moment's notice. : But first, Committee Chairman John MeClellan had a bill to total: the committee's investigation of the Teamsters' West Coast affairs, said Arkansas Democrat McClellan, indicated that $709,420.14 in union funds had been lost, strayed, stolen or was of a "questionable nature." Furthermore, Frank Brewster had signed most ; of the checks...
...unprecedented cut -that -budget clamor heard lately on Capitol Hill and across the nation is sweet music to Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd, the No. 1 applegrower in the U.S. and the Mr. Economy of the U.S. Senate. For a decade Democrat Byrd has faithfully worked out each year a picked-clean "Byrd budget," always a lot smaller than the one submitted by the President, whether Democrat or Republican. Last week bouncy, apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, 69, unwrapped his fiscal 1958 budget, proposed to pluck a total of $6.5 billion from the $71.8 billion proposed by President Eisenhower...
...Cannon's Appropriations Committee, the resolution touched off a long, loud partisan debate with many a tongue in cheek and many a wink. It is only "common courtesy," said Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, to invite the Administration to indicate where to cut its own budget. Complained Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "We are faced with this unusual situation because it is the first time in the history of our nation that a President has submitted a budget for the opera tion of the Government; yet neither he nor his Secretary of the Treasury has made any attempt to justify...
...Dispatched, on a rugged (two-month), wide-ranging (up to 18-nation) Mideast mission, Democrat James P. Richards, 62, longtime (23 years) South Carolina Congressman and former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who retired in January, was promptly named by Ike as a special adviser on Mideast affairs (TIME, Jan. 21). Ambassador Richards' job: "to remove misunderstandings" about the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Mideast, survey the military and economic needs of the nations that wish to share in its benefits, report to Ike on how the $200 million earmarked by the program for the development...
...State Department is thinking in terms of some $30 million, California's William Fife Knowland, Senate minority leader, declared he would continue to oppose any sum until Soviet troops are withdrawn from Poland and free elections are held. From the other side of the aisle, Massachusetts' Democrat John F. Kennedy proclaimed that it would be a brutal and dangerous policy for the U.S. to turn down the Polish request. The prospect: either a comparatively modest (up to $40 million) sale of agricultural surpluses for zlotys-or, if the Administration asks for changes in the Battle Act (which bars...