Word: passman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DAVID L. PASSMAN...
Joining in the essay honors were two four-man units from the Law School: Campbell-McCarty-Rosenberg-Wolfe of 2L, and Webb-Passman-Lovett-Zwick...
Johnson will need all his political tricks to get the aid bill through Congress. Aid-chopping Representative Otto ("The Terrible") Passman has vowed to sweat the President's request down to a slim $1 billion. In the House last year, only two votes kept the aid bill from being sent back to committee to be cut some more. Now thirty-three members who supported the Administration's proposals have lost their seats. While there is no way of telling how the fifty-seven now Republican Representatives will vote, most likely they will not be very friendly to the bill...
...before the great collapse of 1929, proclaimed: "We shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring solemnly that a family in his district had even received a CARE package from worried relatives in Europe. On Ed Sullivan's Sunday night television show a comic announced: "I joined the war on poverty-I threw...
...minutes, while he presented his own bill to the House, Passman savagely attacked it and all "the imaginary accomplishments of the foreign aid program." And then, after fulsome apologies, Passman turned around and started fighting for the bill. "I represent the majority of the committee and not necessarily my personal views," he said. "It will be my responsibility to defend it to the fullest extent of my ability." When Republicans moved to cut $285 million out of it, Passman declared: "I hope the motion will be voted down...