Word: speakers
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Dirksen had made his point, nonetheless. Congress is expected to approve pay raises for Agnew and the top congressional leaders. The legislators will hike the salaries of Agnew and House Speaker John McCormack to $62,500 and raise Dirksen and four others to $49,500. Inflation has pushed up the cost of living and entertaining, and the bill is designed to ensure that the nation's leadership cadre will not be forced into penury...
Suite Hearts. The Dean of the Biplane Set is House Speaker McCormack, 77. He came to Washington as a freshman Congressman in 1928 with his bride Harriet and moved into a furnished suite in the then brand-new Washington Hotel. They are still there. The suite, the hotel and the McCormacks have grown into dignified and genteel old age together. The McCormacks never entertain and rarely go out in the evening. One party they never miss: the annual White House dinner in the Speaker's honor. Mrs. McCormack invariably wears the same black dress. The rest of the year...
...destroyer escort in the Pacific. After becoming a reporter for the Cleveland Press, he joined TIME'S Washington bureau in 1951 as a correspondent, and two years later transferred to New York as a writer in the NATIONAL AFFAIRS section, where he wrote cover stories on House Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and the then Vice President, Richard Nixon...
...answer to India's manifold economic problems, Indira over the past two years has grown increasingly impatient with the old guard's conservative approach. Last month the quarrel flared into the open. Determined to trim Indira's sails, the Syndicate selected Sanjiva Reddy, 56, speaker of the lower house of Parliament and a longtime foe of the Prime Minister's, as the Congress Party's official nominee for the presidency.* Mrs. Gandhi responded by ramming through the nationalization of 14 major Indian banks. At the same time, she forced the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister...
Fret Aloud. At Moscow's behest, the government is attempting to justify the invasion by "documenting" the existence of an anti-socialist conspiracy last year. The party daily Rudé Právo, for example, last week quoted one speaker at a meeting of regional Communist district chiefs held in May 1968 as warning: "Right-wing opposition forces with varying degrees of anti-Communist and anti-socialist orientation are beginning to emerge on the political scene." The newspaper said that the speaker, who also noted that the Russians were justifiably worried about this trend, was none other than Alexander...