Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change even more drastically and more sincerely. Back in Washington after nearly three months of putting their ears to the ground, its members felt that they knew even better than the President what the country wanted. Whether or not the President means to run for a third term, most Congressmen's hearts are set on re-election and a Roosevelt Recession would be the worst possible 1938 platform. Major administrative hold on both Houses for the past five years has been the flood of Federal spending. With the President set on checking expenditures and balancing the budget, there...
...more knowledge of economics to do his job properly. Nevertheless, he would again select journalism, would prefer to remain a Washington correspondent, even though his hours are uncertain, his home office is constantly badgering him with queries for which he must scurry around to find answers, his estimate of Congressmen's calibre is not too high, and he must occasionally run errands and lobby for his boss. Forced by competitive conditions to pool his efforts with fellow correspondents, he opposes "rugged individualism...
...majority of issues, political prophets expressed the belief that a special session would be called, and that when that session assembled, there would be at hand a splendid barometer for testing popular sentiment on the subject of the New Deal. For the President, as well as the Congressmen, was to visit many of the important constituencies, and, they argued, the attitude when Congress re-assembled would reflect, to a large extent, the attitude of the voters "back home...
This Hoover plan is to hold a Republican convention to draw up a platform- just as is done in Presidential elections- before next year's Congressional elections. Some Republican Congressmen, and presumably Alf Landon, fear that votes may be lost locally by a platform assaulting the New Deal. Herbert Hoover brushed this aside...
...time this week began to help U. S. citizens to "detect and analyze propaganda" at $2 a year From their Manhattan "laboratory" a small basement room near Columbia on Morningside Heights, Professor Miller and 15 other scholars sent this week to more than 3,000 U. S. newspaper editors, Congressmen, Governors, educators, ministers leaders of labor and industry, a four-page folder, Volume I, Number 1 of Propaganda Analysis, a monthly letter to be distributed to members by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis...