Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House switchboard checked up recently, learned that James Roosevelt picked up the telephone 150 times a day. Congressmen who want Administration support for bills, projects, pap, or patronage have learned that the most direct route to the Presidential ear is through Son James, whose long legs carry him across the reception room to his father's office in something less than 30 seconds...
Hart threatened to campagin against the Young Communist League for alleged interference when the Young Conservatives were being organized, and opposed repeal of the oath law. He declared that professors should have no more objection to taking an oath of loyalty than Congressmen...
...startled by the antagonism displayed by the little businessmen (see p. 11 ) toward him and his Administration, he did not indicate it, for he let them run wild on the front page. In the uproar over foreign policy (see col. 2) he took no visible part. With vocal Congressmen trying desperately to force him to redefine his stand, the closest approach to a statement on foreign policy the President made last week was a little speech made to a visiting group of Protestant ministers. The President, an Episcopal warden, said...
...tell the Advisory Council not to take too seriously the trust-busting speeches of Harold Ickes and Robert Jackson. He had to explain that he had no intention of reviving NRA evenin a modified form. When his talk of a supercommittee on co-operacy aroused the jealousy of Congressmen and the suspicions of his liberal advisers, he countered with a White House invitation to little businessmen. But his most vigorous backtracking was on the subject of holding companies...
...Government revenue attorney moved to Columbia in 1924. A pioneer investigator of Federal taxation and the author of several standard textbooks, he is a recognized authority on how to avoid taxes as well as how to levy them. Yet with all Roswell Magill's professorial background Congressmen like and trust him. Once when he appeared before a committee the Congressmen were so impressed by his learning that they asked whether they should not address him as "Doctor."' Said the Under Secretary, smiling: "Mister Magill. please...