Word: congressmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole Hepburn base program would cost perhaps $1,500,000,000, and Franklin Roosevelt's allotment of $44,000,000 would only start it. But the Guam base was enough to excite Congressmen and some officials of the State Department, who feared that it might irritate belligerent Japan...
Next night 36 proud delegates attended a banquet given by the Civil Liberties Commission of the Colored Elks to honor six Congressmen chosen as champions of the underprivileged. A triumph was the banqueting place: the private red-&-gilt dining room (attached to the House Restaurant) of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama...
...most Congressmen, the President's half-billion-dollar arms program was less steep than they had expected...
...appearances, Harry Hopkins had indeed recommended Pinky over Aubrey. The choice in fact represented no great change in policy, but a concession to political expediency. Pinky Harrington is a first-rate politician. Particularly does he know how to coddle Congressmen -a talent which single-minded Aubrey Williams lacks. Since Relief is headed for a good going-over in the next Congress, Franklin Roosevelt needs such a man at the top of WPA. Even 100% New Dealers concede that Aubrey Williams is not the man, after his public talk about class war and the political privileges of Reliefers...
Columnists, correspondents, Congressmen and such military critics as astute Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch) wanted to know whom and where the U. S. expects to fight with an expanded Army. Just as big a question after the President's press conference last week was whether he was talking politic bosh with "pay-as-you-go," or whether he was about to haul down his trial balloon, restore Messrs. Craig and Leahy to command, and reduce Rearmament from big talk to a small practical matter for Army, Navy and budget...