Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt settled down in an arm chair under a big locust tree with a white-washed trunk, and each morning as four retired submarine chasers brought a flock of Congressmen to the island, he presided over something resembling an old-fashioned political picnic. Republican Senator McNary, not invited, sarcastically described the performance as a "weekend charm school." During the evenings which the President spent on the island with six members of his Cabinet and several Democratic leaders of Congress, some serious politics may have been talked but during the day he was surrounded by shirt-sleeved Congressmen eating off long...
...members of the Cabinet. That would be a big party, but they could manage it by holding a three-day week end. There are only 21 beds including the President's in the clubhouse, but they could be reserved for the leaders among leaders. The garden variety of Congressmen could go out in batches of 130 or so a day, have a good time baking in the sun, trapshooting, fishing, swimming, relaxing in the julep room and basking in the Roosevelt smile...
...fight was over the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief bill for fiscal 1938. In the House vigorous attempts were made to attach earmarking amendments to provide pork for the constituencies of various Congressmen (TIME, June 7 et seg.), but in the Senate the revolt against the bill was of an entirely different character. The fight in the Senate was started when dapper Senator James F. Byrnes, long rated a close political friend of Franklin Roosevelt, proposed an amendment sponsored by the Appropriations Committee requiring that no Work Relief projects should be undertaken unless the local communities concerned...
...Adopted a resolution for joint Congressional investigation of wealthy taxpayers as amended by the House to prevent Treasury officials from carrying on a public scandal-hunt in the absence of Congressmen (TIME, June...
...breakfast food, flour, soap, ink, cosmetics, a dandruff remedy. When the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill was in the making, its framers were skeptical as to the need of U. S. farmers for peanut protection. George Washington Carver appeared in Washington, talked for an hour and 45 minutes to the Congressmen. When the bill passed a peanut tariff was in it. In recent years he has tried out peanut oil as a remedy for infantile paralysis, rubbing it into withered muscles...