Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...74th House he has to worry not only about Congressmen who made grief for other Speakers, but also about an unusually vigorous crop of newcomers. The House has a new clown in Representative Percy Gassaway of Coalgate, Okla., who wears cowboy boots, talks loud about fist fights, poses interminably for pictures and calls himself "OF Gassaway, the Oklahoma cowhand...
...Court, a League of Nations, and arbitration which are about the only weapons that we possess today should accomplish more. For in this field one stands a chance of accomplishing something constructive. If the 150,000 students who staged a peace strike in the country yesterday had flooded their Congressmen with telegrams when the World Court was under discussion, they would have helped to establish the prestige of an organization which is sincerely desirous of achieving peace. But apparently their next action in the field will be a year from today when they will again proclaim peace...
...Congressmen treated successful men as heroes. Today, in an improved state of national morality, the New Deal looks on tycoons with much the same disapprobation that Nazis look upon Jews. Few are the important businessmen who can quit a Congressional investigation without having their hair singed. Some have gone away without their scalps. Therefore it was an event when a wealthy businessman last week met Senators and departed not only with all his hair but with a Congressional wreath upon...
...potent oar on Harvard's crew. After Harvard Law School he went into banking, dabbled in politics, went to war. His swank constituency has kept him steadily in Congress since 1923. Privately he moves in one of Washington's tightest little social sets, but among his fellow Congressmen he plays the good fellow with convincing affability. Ruddy, blue-eyed and handsome, he was once picked by famed Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as the ideal type of "future American." ("What are they trying to do, make a fool of me?" roared Aristocrat Bacon when he heard the news.) But despite...
...patriots who have devoted themselves to sniping at Prohibition, the Child Labor Amendment, the Federal Office of Education and the New Deal. Last February they began to pepper Washington with petitions against the "pink slip," flood the land with letters, circulars, advertisements, radio speeches urging citizens to write their Congressmen about the "outrage." The time was politically ripe because taxpayers were just making out their Federal returns, filling in the facts about their income on the pink slips that went with each return. Suddenly amazed Senators and Representatives discovered that their anti-pink slip mail was running even stronger than...