Word: recessions
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...holiday in Oklahoma, Senator Robert Samuel Kerr put a meaty forefinger on the mood of the reconvening Congress: "There's as much opportunity to achieve greatness by what you don't do as by what you do." Like many another Senator and Representative home on recess, Bob Kerr had tested political currents and come away with a spine-tingling shock. Around the nation at all levels people were hellbent on economy-and on not much congressional action beyond that. One senior Senator summed up his constituents' advice in seven succinct words: "Cut that budget and come...
Prodded by such sentiment, Washington's erstwhile big spenders were scrambling like refugees to the safe side of economy. None made the move with more agility than Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Before recess Lyndon had edged close to the border, but he had also aired his private conviction that the budget flap would soon blow over. Ten days of Texas barbecues and bellyaching had turned him into economy's all-out champion: "I have never in my career seen such a strong demand for economy in Government." So general was the agreement that Capitol Hill was betting...
Like kindergarten teachers explaining recess rules to a new class, big-league umpires take time out during spring training to explain baseball's official code of conduct to the players. Like kindergarten teachers, they know better than to mistake attention for agreement. Last week, with barely a dozen games played in the 1957 season, the players were having such a good time breaking rules that baseball's rulemakers were busy rewriting the book...
Bags packed and business backlogged. Congress shifted restlessly from foot to foot, waiting to take off on a ten-day Easter recess. Holding the members back: an eleventh-hour squabble between houses over terms of a bill authorizing $275 million in emergency funds for state public-assistance programs. Breaking down their differences-after a threat by Nevada's "Molly" Malone to talk until the snow was nine feet deep on Pennsylvania Avenue-House and Senate finally escaped Washington until month...
...Simple Thing. Alarmed at the reaction and convinced that Summerfield was not bluffing, the House Appropriations Committee rushed through an approval of $41 million, and privately urged Summerfield to postpone his decrees on the promise that the House itself would virtually meet his demands before Easter recess this week. But Summerfield stood fast. Sniffed Clarence Cannon: "He's been breaking the law all along.* I don't see why he suddenly has become so pious that he can't keep essential service going.'' Mailman Summerfield refused to budge until he got cash on the barrelhead...