Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Reserve Board, had issued a warning that rising prices must be checked by higher taxes and budget balancing. Although the forces of inflation had been unostentatiously at work for four years, not since 1933 had the U. S. public enjoyed such a good inflation scare. New Deal Congressmen who were already worried over the problem of passing the President's Supreme Court bill, shuddered at the suggestion that they should add to their troubles by having to up taxes...
Before the tournament ends, Congressmen will have used 40,170 Brunswick-Balke-Collender King Pins, changed after each team bowls. Bowling pins are turned from kiln-dried maple, cut from the ten feet nearest the base of old maple trees. They cost $11.85 a set of ten, sell-like the A. B. C.'s 28 alleys-at a discount when the tournament is over...
...Roosevelt. A $25 dinner at Detroit had Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah (Governor Murphy was ill). The $50 dinner in Chicago had Senators Duffy and Lewis and the same priced dinner in Manhattan had Herbert Bayard Swope. No less than 20 reliable Senators and over 30 Congressmen spoke hither & yon. How much all these dinners netted, Democratic statisticians had not yet calculated, but the gross take of the dinner-of-dinners at Washington was a matter of simple arithmetic: 1,300 dinners times $100 a plate equaled...
...wildlife, meeting with bland indifference or red tape on every side (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et seq.). Politicians from the top down told him that nobody could get Government money for wildlife or anything else unless a good strong group of voters put the screws on their Congressmen. Tossing up his job, "Ding" set out to organize such a pressure group, determined to teach both Democrats and Republicans something about conservation, and make them like...
...Gandhi retired from official leadership of the Congress in 1934, but his scrawny fingers have never entirely left the helm. He is Conservative and friendly to Britain by comparison with violent Congress President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who is always preaching about "Socialism" and has keynoted that for Congressmen to take office under the new Constitution "would inevitably mean a kind of Partnership with Imperialism in the exploitation of the Indian people...