Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandwiched in between social functions, given mostly by Congressmen angling for the U. S. Country Women's votes, were scores of addresses at Constitution Hall. An Australian delegate told how farm women there had installed a wireless set in every outlying homestead so that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented...
...trees planted in 1935 about 80% have perished. But, Congressmen found that in this tree-planting scheme as run by the Forest Service there was no "pork" whatever. What was the use, asked Congressmen, of spending $75,000,000 or more to plant over a billion trees, if the natural protector of the prairies was not trees but grass...
...Clement's real importance in OARP. The resulting split left the oldster undisputed master of the movement. Meantime anecdotes began circulating in Washington to the effect that his enormous publicity, his vast audiences, his worshipful followers, his new-found wealth and the obvious terror in which timid Congressmen held him had gone to Dr. Townsend's head. "World by Tail" From Old Age Revolving Pensions, Dr. Townsend testified, he had received salary and expenses totaling $16,557. His dividends from the National Townsend Weekly amounted to some $38,500. Of this total he said he had only about...
...have the world by the tail with a downhill pull on this thing, Earl, if we work it right . . ." wrote he from Washington. "You should be here to see the jitters that some of the Congressmen are in as a result of the mandates they are receiving from their constituents. It is fun. I am always spoken of as a soft-voiced, mild-mannered old chap. I have not received an unfriendly word from a single man at the Capitol building...
Picture. By last week The Plow That Broke the Plains had been privately previewed by Hollywood directors, by Interior Department and Resettlement Administration officials and by a group of Congressmen, diplomats, Supreme Court Justices and New Dealers at Washington's Hotel Mayflower. What they all saw was 2,700 ft. of handsome photography detailing a so-year history of how Man has made deserts of the Great Plains...