Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rapping the mentality of congressmen, Dr. Smith went on to say: "If the legislators who passed the teachers' oath bill had had proper adult education the bill never would have been passed, for then those who passed the bill would have been able to think the matter through and would have known that loyalty does not consist of saluting the flag and signing the teachers' oath...
...President's figures, he announced that he was going to aim to cut the deficit for fiscal 1937 to not over $500,000,000, which would entail a budget cut of $3,000,000,000, or six times as much as the President was reported to hope for. Congressmen cannot be put in their places quite so easily as the Press. Vacationer Roosevelt could see that his budget cut was not likely to startle the U. S. C. Before going to Warm Springs President Roosevelt named, instructed and gave his parting blessing to the U. S. delegation...
...Congressional sentimentalists have, for the past 37 years, supported the idea of independence for the Philippines. With the recent Hard Times, the issue became realistic. Cotton Congressmen were told by their constituents that Philippine coconut oil was a competitor with their cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. But the big importation from the Philippines is sugar from sugar cane, and that brought anguished wails from Louisiana sugarmen, howls of positive pain from sugar-beet growers of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Michigan. With independence goes a U. S. duty on Philippine sugar which, unless...
...young citizens with parents or other aged relatives to support, but to impartial eyes Secretary Clements' audience seemed as likely a collection of prospects as an undertaker could find outside Old Folks Home. Nonetheless their numbers and zeal served notice that the Townsend dream still lived, warned Congressmen to expect another wave of letters and petitions when they reconvene in January. The convention also introduced to the nation the man who, out of good Dr. Francis E. Townsend's misty imaginings, has built a rich & potent political organization which fills Eastern politicians with foreboding, Western politicians with genuine...
...Roosevelt in 1931 have any significance, the fact that in October, 1935 Frank Knox is way ahead of his field augurs well for his chances in June, 1936. Who Is Alf Landon? Alfred Mossman Landon is favored for the nomination by the four Kansas Republican Congressmen, Senator Arthur Capper, onetime Vice President Charles Curtis and Alfred Mossman Landon. He has also just become the candidate of William Randolph Hearst, who fortnight ago lifted the Landon boomlet out of the Favorite Son class by declaring : "Surely Mr. Roosevelt can be defeated. ... I am confident that Governor Landon of Kansas could...