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...interesting new faces in the House. One will be that of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, 43, who won in a newly created Brooklyn district. Mrs. Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer???in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House holdings, but another who will...
After four months of mulling, the Ways & Means Committee last week delivered to the House a ponderous Bill to revise the tariff for the benefit of the farmer???and others. Farmers, through their Congressional representatives, surveyed the measure suspiciously, expressed strong disappointment, began to kick dirt. Great was their surprise when other interests affected by this 85,000-word measure were, for different reasons, no more pleased than they...
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