Word: metcalf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unkind things have been said about the Tennessee Valley Authority. When the TVA bill was before Congress in 1933, shortly after veterans' benefits were reduced, Rhode Island's Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf cried: "How on earth can we justify taking a decent living from the soldiers who suffered on the battlefields of France and pour it into the mudholes of Tennessee?" Arizona's Sena tor Barry Goldwater today calls TVA "a giant federal power monopoly-a hoax...
...pupil, and add to this sum another $20 per pupil in those low-income states which have very little of their own money to spend on education. The total cost each year would be around $1.4 billion, higher than last year's most ambitious proposal, the Murray-Metcalf bill...
...Montana's Democrats bypassed retiring Senator James E. Murray's hand-picked successor, selected Congressman Lee Metcalf as their nominee for Murray's Senate seat. In the Republican primary, former Congressman Orvin B. Fjare was chosen to oppose Metcalf in a tight battle in November...