Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting just before the House convened today, the 30-member Republican Policy Committee there agreed almost unanimously to try to put about 300 million back in the bill...
...moved on to the territorial Senate two years later. Among his political assets: an attractive, politics-minded wife, seven children, an easy, breezy manner. "Mike has never met a stranger in his life," says an admirer, marveling at Stepovich's talent for winning friends. Even Alaska Democrats like Republican Stepovich. "He's a good guy," says Democratic Delegate E. L. Bartlett. "I like Mike...
...Lincoln Memorial temple. The three-hour program offered some prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring his peeves on the past, was Montgomery, Ala.'s soft-spoken Pastor Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18). Gist of the Rev. King's eloquent plea to the White...
...heating up between public-and private-power proponents for control of Tennessee Valley Authority's three-man board. Term of Truman-appointed Dr. Harry A. Curtis has expired, leaving board without public-power majority for first time in 24-year TVA history. Top candidates to fill vacancy: Tennessee Republican Congressman Howard Baker, former TVA Engineer Adolph Ackerman, both of whom favor President Eisenhower's "partnership-power...
...Near-collisions in mid-air of disastrous proportions are being narrowly averted every day only by the emergency action of skilled pilots or by Providence." So Delaware's Republican Representative Harry G. Haskell Jr. told the House last week after digging into a Civil Aeronautics Board study that reported 452 near-misses between airborne planes during the last four months of 1956. Leading the list was Los Angeles, which recorded 22 near-misses. Other top danger spots were Washington (21 near-misses), San Francisco (14). New York...