Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising was that the Roosevelt message should be held back for more than two hours until Senator Pat Harrison could get the Social Security Bill through the Senate (see p. 10). Then Congressmen, quite ignorant of the President's intentions, settled back to hear what he might have...
...invitation at his hotel. Outside the Senate he was seen three or four afternoons a week in his reserved box at the ball park or occasionally riding through the streets in the Vice President's 16-cylinder Cadillac bearing the number 111. But if for a time Congressmen thought as the public did, they have since changed their mind, for Throttlebottom has a hand on the throttle...
Thus he is a very useful helper to the New Deal. When he dropped a hint, to Franklin Roosevelt's annoyance, that Congressmen would be doing the President a favor if they passed the Bonus over his veto, there is little doubt that he was trying to be politically helpful by killing the Bonus issue before the next election...
Last week in Washington, 1,500 businessmen descended on the Capitol in a fleet of taxicabs to tell Congressmen that they must vote for a two-year extension of NRA. In Manhattan William Green of the A. F. of L. roared to 18,000 clothing workers a threat of a general strike if Congress did not vote a two-year extension of NRA. At the White House Franklin Roosevelt came out strongly for two more years for NRA. The Ways & Means Committee of the House obediently prepared to report a bill for NRA extension. And the Supreme Court knocked...
...McCarl's 394-page report on TVA for fiscal 1934 was issued in four copies. One was whisked out of sight at the White House, two went to TVA headquarters. The fourth remained in the Comptroller General's Office, subject to inspection by Congressmen but not the general public. Representative Andrew Jackson May of Prestonsburg, Ky., a member of the House Military Affairs Committee, visited the Comptroller General's office with a consulting engineer named John E. Cassidy who made extracts from the report which last week came out piecemeal at the Committee hearings...