Word: voucher
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...discussion were taken seriously, there are quite enough sanctimonious advocates of local sovereignty and local virtue to ratify a Constitutional amendment forbidding any conditions on grants to schools. But most legislators seem to enjoy attaching puerile riders to appropriations, whether conservatives demanding a voucher of immaculate political conception, do-gooders trying to promote social justice by turning every classroom into a racial checkerboard, or liberals in terror of the establishment of a City of God on earth...
Snorted one ranking Republican as the newsmen's story hit Capitol Hill: Voucher padding in Congress is no different from that done by "businessmen, publishers, LIFE reporters and photographers." Said another: "It used to be that a fellow used to take his secretary on trips and call her his wife. Now a guy takes his wife and calls her his secretary." But one Congressman was not laughing. To Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, whose House is like a second home, the scandal was a direct reflection on the whole of Congress. Furious over the conduct of his members...