Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt again returned from a Southern fishing trip to another revolting Congress. There were no Congressmen on hand to greet him, only a few members of his private and official families. Without any speechmaking, the President bundled into a closed car, sped to the White House...
...back to the "party of substance and solemn sedateness." But that, he trusts, will not happen in 1940, or even in 1944. Abandoning all hope of a na tional victory in 1940, the G. O. P. should concentrate on replenishing its treasury, rebuilding its shattered local organizations, electing Congressmen enough to "decrease the defeatist psychology of the party," picking and electing Governors "eminent in commerce or finance, for the reason that in 1948 the Republicans are likely to need a Presidential candidate of that description...
...fundamental powers of the peace rallies which chronically afflict the campuses of universities throughout the country. They made the front pages. Of course, they never accomplish anything immediately tangible beyond the taking of an oath here and there never to fight and the dispatching of telegrams to congressmen, telegrams potent for their nuisance value. True, nothing ever happens beyond the yelling of many voices for peace. And it is probably also true as the cynic claims that those who yell hardest for peace today are first into the trenches tomorrow. "Yes," sneers the R.O.T.C. man, "I'll be an officer...
...cash necessary to put through a reorganization. RFChairman Jesse Jones was all ready to partition the fallen carrier among other western railroads (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935), but that plan involved abandonment of 500 miles of line. The communities which would lose their railroad put screws on their Congressmen, who have thus far blocked the Jones partition plan. Old Frederick Henry Prince, who has bought and sold a railroad or two in his 77 crotchety years, also had a plan for M. & St. L. but that got nowhere at all. Meantime, Mr. Abbott conducts his auctions without benefit of buyers...
...difference between the 10% and 15% proposals was chiefly that the 15% cut looked bigger but was not mandatory and might end up as no saving at all, depending on the President. This was a tempting proposition. Congressmen could take credit for promoting Economy, the President all blame for sinking it. Such was the temper of Congress, however, that Senators Robinson, Byrnes, McKellar and other, less regular, supporters of the Administration came out strongly against it, declaring that they preferred a certain 10% cut (about $350,000,000 net after fixed charges) in the hand, to a possible...