Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor leader must always know how the House is leaning on the issues that come before it. To help him, McCormack can always call on the Democratic whip, Oklahoma's Carl Albert, who, with his 15 assistants, can come up with a quick nose count in 24 hours, a firm figure within a week. (In 1955 the whip count indicated reciprocal trade would win by a single vote on the key roll call; the actual count...
...Count. But it is not all that easy. Under the House system as it has evolved over the decades, the floor leader, the Speaker or anyone else must nearly always go through the Rules Committee to get legislation to the floor. The Rules Committee serves as an absolutely necessary check on the flood of bills introduced each session by the members of the House (by last weekend they had introduced 3,443 so far this session). But beyond that, notions differ. "Some think we are just a traffic cop," says Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith. "Others feel that we have...
...reason: strong opposition. "We are being outvoted, outtalked, outspent and outworked by an alert, disciplined, politically astute opposition." Another reason, which rang jarringly in conservative ears: "We must get rid of the right-to-work tag pinned on our coattails." Still another: the Democrat-labor alliance. "Organized labor was able to put in one state [Maine] in behalf of opposition candidates more field men than the Republican Party had available nationally...
President Eisenhower. Wired Ike: POLITICAL ACTIVITY MUST BE A MATTER OF UNREMITTING EFFORT. IT MUST...
...only the latest and most dramatic evidence of a progressive deterioration in U.S.-Philippine relations. In recent months prominent Filipino politicians have proposed anti-American measures ranging from economic discrimination against U.S. products to renaming Manila's Dewey Boulevard. Last month President Carlos Garcia declared that Asians "must move away from complete dependence on the protective might of the U.S.," began to drop hints that he hoped to develop an independent Philippine foreign policy based on close cooperation with other Southeast Asian nations, including cold-war neutrals...