Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loyalty oath? Would home town newspapers print articles by Harvard students? Where is the Harvard Liberal Union? What connections do they have with the liberal unions across the country? Where is the Student Council? How do the student councils and newspapers in other colleges feel? Where are letters to congressmen? Where is the dedicated fervor and concrete action? Or is not this issue really worth the effort...
...There is little on the home front to justify our complacency," Williams continued. Further, letters received by Congressmen are generally useless, he complained. He mentioned that on the labor reform question thousands of letters were received citing Jack Paar as an authority...
Monroney and others are prepared to fight hard for the measure, but the "What do we have to do with abroad?" mentality of certain Congressmen may make their job a tough one. It would be unfortunate if such latter day isolationism should prevent U.S. participation in the IDA, one of the soundest development ideas ever prepared...
...most serious things that has happened to the United States in my time." Thus President Eisenhower last week criticized Congress for its failure to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term Government bond rates (TIME, Sept. 21). Raising the interest the Government pays on such bonds, argued Congressmen, would only be an open invitation to all other money rates to go up, would cost the Government more to finance its debt. Last week interest rates were going up anyway without an invitation, and the Government was paying close to-or more than-4¼% on its new securities...
...deny U.S. agricultural labor recruitment services to farm employers who do not pay migrants the prevailing local wage rates, do not provide adequate housing or safe transport facilities. In two days of public hearings in Washington last week, farm employment groups battered his plan (earlier 29 farm-state Congressmen, mostly Southern Democrats, had branded the proposal "illegal, immoral and impracticall"). Alone among farm organizations, the National Farmers' Union came to Mitchell's aid, and the Very Rev. Msgr. George G. Higgins, of the"National Catholic Welfare Conference, praised Mitchell for "the greatest kind of courage...