Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banquet hosted by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, luncheons with New York businessmen, press conference and dinner in Los Angeles (whence he flies on around the world). In the growing tradition of nondiplomat diplomacy, Mayor Brandt came not at the invitation of the U.S. Government but to be feature speaker this week at the Springfield, Ill. celebration of Republican Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday. Explained the program chairman: "Brandt is a fighter for freedom, just as Lincoln...
...balanced-budget forces were led by President Eisenhower, persuading Republicans, buttonholing his friends, conferring in friendly fashion over whisky and soda with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn at the White House. At his third weekly press conference in a row, the President read a long, prepared statement urging fiscal responsibility: "I don't believe that we should have higher taxes, and I do not believe that the U.S. wants higher taxes. That means to me living within your income...
...speaker explained that his career with the Communist Party as a secret F.B.I. agent, began "right here in Cambridge, when I innocently joined a front organization." Front groups, he said, are "seemingly innocent organizations, like the former Cambridge Youth Council," which may have a majority of well-intentioned members, but are controlled by the Communists. "There are just a few vultures, but many victims...
Harvard University, "because it is a great educational institution, was singled out by the Party as a prime target for infiltration," explained Philbrick, who called this a "back-handed compliment." But the speaker cautioned at some length against condemning a man just because of past membership in a front organization. "There was once a man named Senator McCarthy," he remarked, "for whom there were only good guys and bad guys, and this was a very bad mistake...
Over in the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn pushed his crew to be ready to complete action on Lyndon Johnson's time schedule. There had been some worry that House Veterans' Committee Chairman Olin E. ("Tiger") Teague would throw a roadblock in the way, as he has in the past, by refusing to permit an increase in the G.I. mortgage rate, from 4¼% to 5¼%, which was incorporated in both Senate and House bills. But Rayburn took Teague aside, and he permitted the higher interest rate to go through...