Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, June 1, published a brief story about a letter from a New Jersey woman to Senator W. Warren Barbour, upbraiding him for obtaining an X card for unlimited gasoline, to which the Senator replied by wire: APPRECIATE THOUGHTS GAS RATIONING. SOLUTION DUE SHORTLY TRANSPORTATION PIPE LINES. The Senator followed up his wire with a letter of explanation . . . part of which follows.—ED...
Very frankly, I received an X gasoline-rationing card from my local rationing board in New Jersey where I had filed my application for the card. In applying for this card it was necessary for me to keep in mind that I represented four and one half million constituents in New Jersey. If my car is used at all, it is used approximately 95% of the time in behalf of my constituents in trying to be of service to them...
...have an X card and I am not ashamed of having asked for one and I do believe, and I say this humbly, that by far and large the people of New Jersey have sufficient confidence in me to know that I am not going to abuse a privilege which I obtained only for one purpose, and that was to be able to continue my services to them at this time of grave emergency...
...Many a minister lamented privately that his X card has resulted in his congregation's using him as a common carrier. Complained one: "It makes me feel like an errand...
Congress, still trying to blame Leon Henderson for the X-card fiasco, got set to punish him for all the sour mail citizens have sent to Congress. Its method: cut his appropriation, possibly from $161 millions to $100 millions. Then Leon Henderson would have to ask for volunteer snoopers...