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...Negro " 4) My mother, Mattie Schaefer never attempted in the famous Philadelphia Schufer suit to prove her relationship to Colonel Schaefer. , 5) I never bought "expensive" clothes No suit cost more than $75, and most ot them are restyled double-breasted, vintage 1945-1950 6) I do not "tack on the Powell Amendment at every opportunity," see the Congressional Record...
...Congress, Powell distinguished himself by his freshman rumbles with the late, unreconstructed John Rankin of Mississippi, by his absenteeism (he is an inveterate traveler, has made 15 trips to Venice), and by a demagogic device known as "the Powell Amendment" - a desegre gation rider that he tries to tack, at every, opportunity, onto school, housing or labor bills. It instantly arouses Southern oppo sition and Northern anguish, has killed at least one worthy bill and made Powell the most unpopular man in Congress. With the retirement of North Carolina's Graham Barden at the end of the present session...
...term. Trying to counter the presidential boost for Ferré, Muñoz declared that Eisenhower on his visit had "recognized the great value of commonwealth and the great economic and social progress registered under the present government of Puerto Rico." Some Muñoz followers, taking a different tack, grumped that Ike's friendliness toward Ferré amounted to interference in Puerto Rican politics. Replied Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Can you imagine the President being against a recognized candidate of his own party...
...that the program contained too few genuinely mutual, share-the-load projects. In this election year, they are only too eager to fling the President's free-spender charges right back at him. They promised to cut Ike down to size by lopping off $1 billion, possibly to tack the saving onto the embattled U.S. defense budget. "There is too much money and too little change in administration," said Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Senate Democratic whip. "Where is the joint foreign aid effort with other free nations assuming their share of the burden?" Next...
...Congress would not okay appropriations for such a plane until MATS was no longer directly competitive with the private airlines. It was almost impossible for MATS to get any new equipment of any kind. Last year the House shot down a $66 million item that MATS tried to tack on its budget for the purchase of ten DC-8 jets...