Word: congress
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Taking the sun in Key West, Fla., Clark Clifford, the President's closest adviser, last week told why he was quitting the Government. The lyrics were familiar, but some of the accompaniment was new. Though Congress had recently raised his salary as presidential counsel from $12,000 to $20,000 a year, Clifford insisted that he just couldn't live on his salary and raise a family (three daughters...
...effect, the President was using a housing act to press a reform which Congress did not specify in passing the act. The loudest outcries came from builders and bankers in the South, and in New York and New Jersey. Even housing officials sympathetic to its sociological aims wondered: Would the new rule endanger the nation's healthy building boom...
Parnell Thomas, who in his 203 had changed his name from Feeney to Thomas, and his religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...
...draw from (the 30's) most valuable lessons. One of them is that it should be easier to avoid a depression than to cure it. Continuous watching and suitable remedial action is possible and lies within the province of the President's Economic Council and the Joint Committee of Congress. It remains to be seen whether those bodies will act on the basis of short-sighted, political expediency or will address themselves to the serious task assigned to them...
...same time, Flanders urged reciprocal trade with the protection of the "peril point" provision of the 80th Congress. "It was not wise," he said, "to eliminate it from the law passed by the 81st Congress...