Word: philbin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following candidates have apparently been elected to the House of Representatives from the Commonwealth: First District, Esleton, Republican; Second District, Bolin, Democrat; Third District, Philbin, Democrat; Fourth District, Donahue, Democrat; Fifth District, Rogers, Republican; Sixth District, Bates, Republican; and Seventh District, Lane, Democrat...
...about to set up a mercenary Foreign Legion. The 81st Congress had laid down some specific safeguards in passing the 1950 Lodge-Philbin Act, which had been conceived and argued into law by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. He thought that the U.S. was missing an opportunity to recruit fighting men, with something to fight for, among exiles from Iron Curtain countries living as displaced persons in Germany. No more than 2,500 "skilled military specialists and technicians," unmarried and between the ages of 18 and 35, will be accepted. The men are not to serve in national groups...