Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats outside of Congress joined in the attack. Left-leaning Americans for Democratic Action charged that the Democratic leadership in Congress "surrendered before a shot was fired." The A.D.A.-ish National Committee for An Effective Congress accused Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of "liberal talking, conservative legislating." And in the latest Democratic Digest, National Chairman Paul Butler took the inside cover to urge the congressional Democrats not to let the veto threat scare them into "watering down our vital programs...
Throughout India last week there was an increasingly articulate protest against the leadership-or lack of it-of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...
...first clear sign of a change in Democratic leadership signals came during a Senate-House conference meeting on the airport improvement bill. For three months, Oklahoma Democrat Mike Monroney, knowledgeable specialist in the jet age, had held out doggedly for the Senate's fat, $465 million airport-construction bill as opposed to the House's $297 million version. Then, one day last fortnight, influential Senator Monroney breezed into a committee session and recommended that the committee forget both bills, simply extend for two years the current airport aid of $63 million a year-only $6.000,000 more than...
Just who talked to Mike Monroney is his secret, but it is an open secret on Capitol Hill that the fellow Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, have made a deliberate new policy decision: the congressional leadership sees no profit in fighting President Eisenhower's legislative program, will go along pretty much with what the President wants for the rest of the session. And the decision, in turn, has signaled the widest and bitterest split in the Democratic Party in years...
...Chorus, under the leadership of Harold C. Schmidt '32, Director of Choral Music and professor of Music at Stanford University, will have its organizational meeting tomorrow from 7 to 8 p.m. in Room 11, Sever Hall. Rehearsals will take only three hours a week in preparation for the annual choral concert to be given in Sanders Theatre on August 13. The Chorus may also apear on television, as in previous summers...