Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 1934-In the face of prodigious Federal spending, Congressmen found it increasingly difficult to explain what difference a few more millions for veterans and Government employes made. They overrode the President's veto of the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill, gave back $90,000,000 to veterans, $120,000,000 to Federal workers...
...notably unmelodious voice last week brought cheer to Congressmen sick for home amid the alien corn of Washington...
From handsome Dr. Max Minor Peet of the Universityof Michigan, the Congressmen heard of cutting abdominal nerves which stimulate the kidneys, adrenals, spleen, pancreas, liver, stomach and intestines, of cutting dorsal sympathetic nerves which affect the colon, rectum, bladder and genital organs. Dr. Peet operated thus on 60 patients to relieve their high blood pressure. Results...
...Dead Man." Hot after huge, unpopular Associated Gas & Electric Co., whose Warren, Pa. representative admitted last fortnight that he had sent Congressmen hundreds of unauthorized telegrams against the Public Utility Bill's "death sentence" (TIME. July 29), the Black committee summoned telegraph and utility men from York, Pa. Testimony was offered that an A. G. & E. subsidiary had prepared some 2,000 anti-"death sentence" telegrams, filed them in batches of 100 or more...
Million-Dollar Lobby. Still scratching hard as the week ended. Chairman Black had yet to achieve crowning success by proving that the Power lobby had actually bribed anyone. But Congressmen and consumers alike were calculated to be impressed by the fact that expenditures admitted by lobbyists in their fight against the Public Utilities Bill already totaled...