Word: congressmen
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...from each state be in proportion to its population. If population grew uniformly throughout the country there would be no need for reapportionment, but population does not grow in that way. So periodically a ratio is determined (one representative to a certain unit of population) and the number of Congressmen to each state is reapportioned. Naturally, Congressmen object to any reapportionment which would reduce their numbers and throw some of them out of jobs. Consequently at every reapportionment except one (that following the Census of 1840) the number of Congressmen was increased. CENSUS No. OF RATIO...
Less than two years ago the Treasury was calling for tax reduction, including reduction of surtaxes, and Congressmen were holding back warily. As the time for the convening of another Congress draws near, the situation is very nearly reversed. Congressmen are calling for a tax cut-a cut of as much as half a billion dollars, reduction of surtaxes to as low as 10%, and the Treasury is holding back, fearing that if it gives Congressmen their way it may not be able to balance its books next year. It is crying to overeager Congressmen (in everything but slang) : "Hold...
Last spring (TIME, Mar. 9) Congressmen decided to increase the pay of postal employes an aggregate of $68,000,000 a year. Congress was then in a nice quandary. How could it increase revenues that amount without offending everyone concerned? It patched up some kind of law and passed it, promising that it was only tentative and would be revised at the next session...
...help build a Negro Church in Oklahoma, to help a minister trying to make a living in Michigan, to help this worthy cause, to help that worthy person. Why has it been presumed that the Treasury might give away money freely? Because the last Congress passed a law increasing Congressmen's salaries from $7,500 to $10,000 a year and some Congressmen talked of refusing the increase. The Comptroller General ruled that they had to take their monthly pay checks at the $10,000 rate, but that they might return the difference to the Treasury if they chose...
...Embassy as a protest against "the exclusion of Japanese from the U. S." Mass meetings and other pacific demonstrations are scheduled and a list of names of representative Japanese, together with their opinions, are to be collected in a book, translated, sent to U. S. Congressmen, Chambers of Commerce, newspapers...