* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Webster as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators with Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Calhoun as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

In sharp contrast to what would become during his Presidency, Johnson was strongly opposed as Senate Majority Leader to Eisenhower's 1957 Civil Rights Act, fearful that its passage would tear his party apart.

He served as Senate Majority Whip under Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson from 1957 to 1961.

Two years after he was called to the bar of Saskatchewan in 1957, Hnatyshyn's family moved to Ottawa upon his father being summoned to the Senate.

In 1957, a Senate Committee selected La Follette as one of the five greatest U. S. Senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Robert Taft.

Still holding his U. S. Senate seat after the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket in 1956, Kefauver was named chair of the U. S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee in 1957 and served as its chairman until his death.

Between 1957 and 1963, his U. S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee investigated concentration in the U. S. economy, industry by industry, and it issued a report exposing administrative, monopoly prices in the steel, automotive, bread and pharmaceutical industries.

After dabbling in politics, including service in the New Jersey Senate from 1951 to 1957 and candidacy for Governor of New Jersey, he committed to the magazine full time by 1957, three years after his father's death.

One of McClellan's law partners prior to his Senate service, Maud Crawford, went missing in March 1957 in Camden, Arkansas.

Founded in 1957, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments ( MWCOG ) is a regional organization of 21 Washington-area local governments, as well as area members of the Maryland and Virginia state legislatures, the U. S. Senate, and the U. S. House of Representatives.

In 1957, a Senate committee named Taft as one of the five greatest senators in American history, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Robert La Follette.

Ralph Webster Yarborough ( June 8, 1903January 27, 1996 ) was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate ( 1957 to 1971 ) and was a leader of the progressive or liberal wing of his party in his many races for statewide office.

When Daniel resigned from the Senate in 1957 to become governor, Yarborough ran in the special election to fill the empty seat.

Although it was weakened by the United States Senate, he drafted the legislative proposal that ultimately became the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which was the first civil rights law enacted since 1875.

Eisenhower wished to nominate Brownell to the Supreme Court when vacancies occurred in 1957 and 1958 but felt he could not because segregationists in the Senate would fight and defeat the nomination.

Known as the ' Queen ' of the Senate, Lucas was a proud native of Durham, North Carolina and an alumna of Hillside High School, attending the historically black school from 1951 until 1953 and teaching French and Spanish there from 1957 until 1975.

Elected to the Philippine Senate from 1957 to 1963, he also was the first Filipino film actor who was able to parlay his fame into a substantial political career.

Two other Republicans mentioned for the senatorial nomination, Thad Hutcheson, who had sought Texas ' other Senate seat in a special election in 1957, and Bruce Alger, the only Republican congressman from Texas at the time, were both uninterested.

Blakley, a conservative Democrat, had also been appointed by Daniel in 1957 to succeed Daniel in the Senate when Daniel was elected governor.

The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).

In 1957, the National Committee Day of Planting Trees / Foundation of National Festival of Trees ( Nationale Boomplantdag / Nationale Boomfeestdag ) was created.

According to the current Nobel Committee head Lars Gillensten, his nominee was discussed every year from 1946 to 1950, then again in 1957 ( it was finally awarded in 1958 ).

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Following Khrushchev's ascension to power, the Central Committee still played a leading role ; it overturned the Politburo's decision to remove Khrushchev from office in 1957.

One of the few known instances of the Central Committee overruling the Presidium ( as the Politburo was known ) was the defeat of the so-called Anti-Party Group in 1957.

He was, among other things, the inventor of game theory, a cold war strategist, and chairman of the ICBM Committee until his death in 1957.

* Peace Action — formerly SANE ( the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy ), founded in 1957

From 1920 to 1957, three bodies, successively the Federal Capital Advisory Committee, the Federal Capital Commission, and the National Capital Planning and Development Committee continued to plan the further expansion of Canberra in the absence of Griffin ; however, they were only advisory, and development decisions were made without consulting them, increasing inefficiency.

The Bulgarian Volleyball Federation is the world's second-oldest, and it was an exhibition tournament organised by the BVF in Sofia that convinced the International Olympic Committee to include volleyball as an olympic sport in 1957.

The paper also gave its support to the proposals of the Wolfenden Committee in 1957, condemning the " utterly irrational and illogical " old laws on homosexuality: " Not only is the law unjust in conception, it is almost inevitably unjust in practice ".

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (; – 8 November 1986 ) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium ( Politburo ) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev.

The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution ( better known as the Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee ) was published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu, Michael Pitt-Rivers and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.

* Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, 1957.

* A member of the President's Science Advisory Committee ( PSAC ) 1957 – 59 and a Consultant-at-Large of PSAC from 1960 – 1973.

On 21 November 1957, Hugh Dryden, NACA ’ s director, established the Special Committee on Space Technology.

Rabi was appointed a member of the Science Advisory Committee ( SAC ) of the Office of Defense Mobilization in 1952, serving as its chairman from 1956 to 1957.

Rajaji tendered his official resignation from the Indian National Congress and along with a number of other dissidents organised the Congress Reform Committee ( CRC ) in January 1957.

The Congress Reform Committee also contested 12 Lok Sabha seats during the 1957 Indian elections.