Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan election was that it was the first victory of a candidate east of the Rocky Mountains who campaigned openly for old Dr. Francis E. Townsend's plan for $200-a-month pensions for all good citizens over 60 (TIME, Nov. 4 et ante). Hundreds of Congressmen could foresee the ominous days next autumn when they would have to stand for or against the rising tide of Townsendism...
...Athlete Ives, anxious to get into West Point, went to the War Department in Washington and asked how. He was given a list of 75 Congressmen with appointments to make. All but three or four gave him no hope. One who did was Representative Hoeppel. Unexpectedly there arrived at the Ives home in Baltimore a young man who said his name was Charles Alexander and who promised to deliver the appointment for $1,000. Applicant Ives gave him a promissory note for the sum. Few days later Ives learned that a bought appointment was illegal, went to Washington, demanded...
...fellow industrialists to turn the heat on local Republican committeemen to keep the G.O.P. "from becoming more liberal; meaning more radical." Conspicuous at the banquet board as he passed the olives was the handsome, flowing stock of Mohawk Carpet Mills Chairman George W. McNeir (see cut). Other business Congressmen were du Pont's President Lammot du Pont; Atwater Kent's A. At water Kent; W. A. Sheaffer Pen's W. A. Sheaffer; Kohler Co.'s Walter J. Kohler; Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden; Adman Bruce Barton; Camelman S. Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard...
Only discordant note in this symphony of reaction was played by Chairman Joseph Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board. Indeed, some of the business congressmen gruffed for publication that Laborman Madden had abused their hospitality, that he had not been invited "to come here and make a union speech...
This was so far off their reservation that the business congressmen fairly purpled. Up jumped the National Association of Manufacturers' General Counsel James A. Emery. Smoothing his morning coat and adjusting his Adam's apple to his wing collar, he cried in rebuttal...