Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without warning, while Congressmen were rubbing their hands and shaking in their boots because of the Teapot Dome investigation, they were suddenly confronted by a special message from the President. The message dealt with the farm situation in the Northwest, diagnosing the case and suggesting remedies...
Leonard Wood, Jr.: "It is too bad that I haven't a few more brothers so that all of the Congressmen could be kept busy...
...pessimist, he itemized as follows: 1) potentiality of credit inflation due to our abnormal gold reserve; 2) uncertainty as to the continuance of large industrial profits, as seen in declining commodity prices, the steel industry, etc.; 3) probability of attack, and its possibility of success, by radical Congressmen upon the Transportation Act; 4) unsettling influence of Presidential election, bonus agitation, possible tampering with Federal Reserve Act by farm bloc; 5) Germany drifting into bankruptcy, England faced with a Labor Ministry, France feeling the results of debt inflation, reparations still unsettled...
...Whether Congressmen have received money to influence their stand on Philippine independence...
...Little Congressmen," emulating their masters...