Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marine band assembled in the House lobby, played funereal tunes. Promptly at noon the musicians packed up their instruments and departed. At the same hour Speaker Byrns, in striped trousers and cutaway, called the House to order and recessed it to hold the annual memorial service for dead Congressmen. As he did so, into the chamber filed Representatives Ulysses S. (for Samuel) Guyer of Kansas, John J. O'Connor of New York and Mary T. Norton of New Jersey. Behind them filed Mrs. Thomas David Schall, widow of the late Senator from Minnesota, in full mourning; Madam Senator Long...
...these one cold night last winter crept a hungry, jobless Negro named Fulton Augustus Bond, out on bail after an arrest for vagrancy. A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman. Capitol police, drawn largely from the job-hungry following of Congressmen, bothered him not at all. Many of them attend Washington's law schools. No detectives, most of them are too immersed in thoughts of the Law to observe the faces of the hundreds of Negro employes who slouch through the Capitol corridors...
...heart of the new restriction scheme is in the state law to which the Federal Government gives its legislative blessing. Although Congress has nothing to say about this, the New Deal has. As Republican Congressmen pointed out, the same gentlemen in the Department of Agriculture who wrote the AAAct helped write the new State law. Chief provisions of this State...
...more than 4-to-1 his House colleagues voted down the Wadsworth proposition that farmers should be required to put up 15% of the cost. Congressmen could easily imagine thousands of farmers sitting under the glow of electric lights listening to their radios and nodding approvingly next November as an announcer broadcasts the news of their benefactors' reelection...
However, the reactions of angry Congressmen, Legionnaires, and professional patriots have proved the adage that "where the shot hits, there the feathers fly." The potentialities of the movement as an effective satire have been realized. A joke gets known more widely and more rapidly than a philosophy thesis, and as such, the movement has swept the nation's campuses. But it is at this point that the Veterans of Future Wars need a solid foundation under them. That foundation must be utter seriousness, thinly veiled by the humor of the idea, and not vice versa. As an example, a Future...