Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington burst out quick pruts of irritation from Senators Minton, Thomas, Vandenberg, Burke, Nye and Adams, as well as several Congressmen. Steve Early, White House secretary, came out of the President's study next day and remarked to reporters with studied severity: "It would have been kind and polite of the speaker to have consulted the victim before he spoke." This satisfied nobody, but it served to remind a U. S. absorbed by the War that a Presidential election was only 377 days away, and that the third term was an issue...
...Andrews tripped himself on conflicting interpretations, had to be corrected by his embarrassed subordinates. Southern Congressmen, buttering up Mr. Andrews in Washington, privately advised their employer-constituents to pay no attention to the law. Employers who wanted to comply began to complain, along with Labor, that gentle Elmer Andrews was entirely too gentle. Elmer Andrews reasonably pointed out that his staff of 250 in the field, 451 in Washington was quite inadequate to enforce a law covering 12,600,000 workers. Rebuffed by the White House, worn by a long fight to block crippling amendments at the last session...
...When the war is over and the soldiers return home, they will find a surplus of guns and ammunition and a shortage of food and clothes. When that time rolls around, don't you think it would be a good idea for Mr. Roosevelt to call his congressmen in and say: "Boys, we've spent several billions trying to help the poor and downtrodden get on top where the big fellows are (or used to be) but it don't seem to be getting us any place. What do you think about turning this relief business around...
...which might be mistaken to compromise the position of the Catholic clergy toward the Congress of the United States, and toward his great friend and admiration, the President. ... It constitutes disrespect for wisdom and experience, and is a positive impediment to our democratic process, deliberately to bludgeon Senators and Congressmen with letters and telegrams which can only be counted and not read...
...majority cross-section of the U. S. for repeal, Congressional mail ranged 10-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against. Even discounting half that mail as inspired by such professional rainmakers as Father Coughlin, there were enough sane, sincere letters in the downpour to give shivers to Congressmen, notoriously the most mail-pervious group...