Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Parliament behaved very much like the U. S. Congress, except that it did everything backwards. Congress wanted to go home (see p. 11). Parliament wanted to stay in session. In Washington "Government" whips had tried to keep rebellious Congressmen in session to pass the President's bills. In London Conservative Party whips threatened purges, Prime Minister Chamberlain lost his temper, disgruntled members of the Party in power spoke out in open revolt, Oppositionists cheered signs of a growing split, as the members drew back from the dread prospect of a two-month vacation. The two great organs...
...next day with both warring factions of organized labor and representatives of U. S. business in an effort to reach an all-around compromise. Trap-mouthed "Goober" Cox knew as well as Mrs. Norton that nothing but hot words would emanate from such a session. So the nine Congressmen smiled, and Mrs. Norton trudged wearily away to arrange the "conference...
...political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine (composed of State bosses & underlings) which built up and elected Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, stayed with him in 1936. At the Philadelphia convention three years ago, about half the 1,100 delegates were Federal jobholders. Next year only Cabinet officers, Congressmen and a few top-rank policy officers of the Roosevelt regime may be delegates. Power unprecedented will be in the hands of the State bosses, Jim Farley's friends. The whole Roosevelt strategy of getting uninstructed delegations for 1940 was out on the ropes. If ever there...
More impressive than any Labor demonstration was a report addressed to all Congressmen this week by the U. S. Conference of Mayors. These gentlemen declared that if Congress does not rescind its requirement that localities contribute 25% of WPA project costs, the WPA money voted by Congress for this year will be "so far as many cities are concerned but an idle gesture." Alternatives, they said, were a further appropriation, or amendment of the clause requiring money so far voted to last twelve months. The mayors used alarming words like "wreck," "collapse," "destruction." Their most piteous alarm: "The nation...
...Harry Bridges is deported after a grandstand trial which may last two months, the final decision will rest, not with Examiner Landis or Immigration Commissioner James Houghteling or a board of review, but with another lady: Frances Perkins, who some Congressmen think should be impeached for not sending Bridges away long...