Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bischoff an extra player who posed as a financier, went through the motions of making a deal to buy Producer Bischoff's pet electric razor business. Last week Producer Bischoff sent to Production Head Briskin Extra Players Pat Daly, Frank Jaquet, Bill Teelaak who posed as U. S. Congressmen Martin of Mass., King of Utah, Tydings of Maryland; sent with them a Warner Brothers cameraman who posed as a newspaper photographer. Production Head Briskin posed with the three spurious Congressmen (see cut), blushed, bumbled: "Gentlemen, welcome to RKO! We'll do everything we can to make your stay...
...Congressmen are glad to get out of broiling Washington, go home in the summer. In Mexico, Congressmen are glad to escape from the broiling lowlands to cool Mexico City and go to work in the summer. Last week diplomats in gold braid, commercial attaches in morning clothes packed the balcony of Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies to hear President Lazaro Cardenas open the regular session of Mexico's 37th Congress. Senators, Deputies, who disdain formal dress as not in keeping with the nation's "social revolution," attended in street clothes...
When the legislators rose to take the oath, stood with arms pointed downward at a 22° angle, hands open, palms down, freshman diplomats were startled to observe pistol butts sticking from the rear pockets (Sof some Congressmen, who came ready for a turbulent four-month session. Up on the speaker's stand, President Cardenas, flanked by symbols of the Army's backing...
...union conflicts "unjustified," said they served to "give arms to our enemies." With a warning to American, British, oil and mining interests, Rightist sympathizers, that the revolution would proceed despite "discontent at popular conquests," the President sat down. As he did so a cameraman tumbled off the platform. Superstitious Congressmen muttered among themselves that this was a bad omen...
...parallel was obvious. The President had asked Congress for crop control legislation and had failed to get it. Now, with a bumper crop threatening to depress cotton prices, Southern Congressmen wanted him to use Commodity Credit Corporation's $135,000,000 kitty to grant farmers loans of 10? a lb. on their cotton and to peg the price at 12? a lb. Only assurance that such loans would be repaid lay, according to the President, in legislation to limit next year's crop. Before granting them he wanted as assurance the equivalent of a "banker's acceptance...