Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less talented or venturesome Republican Congressmen, who feel the need for national issues to campaign on, came their leaders with help. Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr. of the Republican Congressional Committee announced an official slogan: "Let's put America back to work!" Senate Minority Leader McNary and House Minority Leader Snell issued a semi-official nine-point platform. The Republican pledges for any campaigners who feel the need of them...
...Launched what may become the biggest trust-busting expedition in U.S. history as President Roosevelt signed a resolution for a $500,000 monopoly study by a committee of six Congressmen, six members of Government executive agencies. Named chairman of the committee was Wyoming's trust-busting Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, named a member was Idaho's trust-busting Senator William Edgar Borah, who declared: "I venture the belief that the committee is not proposing any witch-hunting program...
When not making pictures, cinema stars make headlines by marrying and divorcing, wooing and suing. When not making laws, members of Congress keep their names and causes before the public by Investigations. This summer these extracurricular activities will be fewer than usual because, in an election year, Congressmen want to be home mending fences. Also because of elections, investigations will be specially designed to provide useful political color. By last week three investigations of 1938 loomed largest...
...Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission." Other Congressmen, quite willing to pose as art critics, called Mr. Christy the greatest living portrait painter, panned his portrait of the late Speaker Rainey, called one of his paintings a "garish nightmare," said he had a "flamboyant style," painted charming magazine covers, that his portrait of Mrs. Coolidge was no credit...
Five months ago, after it had been revealed that Howard Chandler Christy's official Sesquicentennial poster, We, the People, had been sold to a Tammany leader of Representative Bloom's district, Congressmen demanded an investigation of the commission, eliminated a $50,000 appropriation for it. Last week, although Representative Bloom protested that $35,000 for the new picture would include the frame and cost of hanging, Congressmen, a bit fed up, rejected the resolution...