Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policy. With the close of Congress near, the Senators in the opposite wing were fretting with eagerness to not about criticizing the Administration's foreign policy. Certainly there has been a turn toward a more favorable view of European participation recently, and the charges which the Democratic congressmen had stored up for use during the recess would have been effective ammunition against the party in power. The President's prudent compromise, which accepts the Court without the League, will considerably dampen those stories...
...editor of the local journal enthusiastic over the "native sons training at Camp X--". The C. M. T. C. training, valuable in itself, can only hope to develop men well versed in the fundamentals of elementary drill and physical development,--in a month nothing more is possible. Congressmen, who, having voted for a diminutive army, attempt to defend their action by pointing to the C. M. T. C. students as "our able defenders of the future," are not only deceiving their constituents, but themselves. In these days of wars and rumors of wars, such deception is, to put it mildly...
...answer to the touching appeal for advice, then, President Harding might well suggest that the session close; Washington in summer is no place for fretful Congressmen--and besides, a number of Republicans are candidates for reelection...
...voters thus shut out from any voice in the representative body, which levies and spends the taxes of all, is often enormous: in the election of the state Senate of Pennsylvania which was in session in 1920 it amounted to 444,514. The result of the election of 13 Congressmen in Indiana in 1912 was still worse, for less than half of those who voted elected all the Congressmen...
...disconcerting to have a man in such a high position perform so unreasonably in the question of disarmaments and economy. Disarmament is a problem to be solved by men who, like General Pershing, understand more than the military side of the matter. It is almost as bad to excite Congressmen into frenzied legislation wiping out an army, as to continue in the present extravagance. Secretary of War Baker has acted in a way that sets a bad example to future office-holders; co-operation and good judgment are what we need, especially when it comes to disarming ourselves...