Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thurman Arnold points out: "Institutions once formed have the persistence of all living things. ... Even when their utility both to the public and their own members has disappeared, they still survive." Tammany still bivouacs some of its cohorts in state departments; it still elects Assemblymen, State Senators, and Congressmen; it still makes judges. It will not obey any orders to disband. It will not be destroyed until it is beaten by another Democratic organization that combines the patronage, prestige, and mass support of the New Deal with the morale and organizational strength formerly possessed by Charlie Murphy's Tammany...
...thus started to call the roll of members, a deathlike silence spread through the chambers, enveloped the normally chattering galleries. The House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt had called it into extraordinary session to pass...
Great learning is not among the qualifications of many U. S. Congressmen, but all U. S. Congressmen like to lard their speeches with learned allusions. On the floor of the House one day last week rollicking Maury Maverick of Texas took exception to a critical remark made by Ralph Brewster of Maine...
Last week, inspired by union officials in Washington, 26 Congressmen wrote...
Mayor Hague expressing concern over the reports of "wholesale arrest and deportation. . . ." It looked, said the Congressmen, as if "officials of your administration acting under blanket orders" were denying labor its constitutional rights. Back to Montana's Congressman Jerry J. O'Connell, one of the signers and a personal friend of Boss Hague, went an answer the same...