Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superintendents picked up the issue, tossed it back & forth. Said Washington's Superintendent Frank Washington Ballou, to whose schools go the children of Congressmen of all political and social hues: "Before we indoctrinate students in the new social order we ought to find out what that social order shall...
...balmy summer of 1929, President Hoover's Secretary of War James William Good went to Minneapolis to help dedicate a great building. On hand for the same purpose were Congressmen, foreign delegates, seven Governors, Sousa's Band. Built with the profits from countless utility promotions and designed to resemble the Washington Monument, the 32-story structure was equipped with sumptuous living quarters for its owner, whose name was displayed in great black letters on all four sides-FOSHAY. Even more remarkable than his tower was Wilbur Burton Foshay, over whose desk used to hang the motto: "Why worry...
...send the President, Senators and Congressmen home and keep an office boy at the White House to open the telegrams? Then when some damphool blasts the air with some other Utopian idea all we will have to do is to wire Washington; the office boys will count the telegrams and the stenographers will write the laws on the books, according to the majority vote...
...left with the job of working out by itself fresh NRA legislation from the ground up. Shrewdly the President refrained from making a major issue out of the component parts of a measure Administration leaders will be obliged to pass eventually to save their own faces. Invited to debate, Congressmen can get their grievances against NRA out of their systems without taking a slap at the President. The widespread Congressional urge to "investigate" this prime piece of New Deal experimentation from a dozen different angles will doubtless spend itself harmlessly in the protracted House and Senate hearings. Then...
...Washington. It is now a de luxe city and the de luxe spirit has prevailed with especial verve during the last two years. Life should be lived there with a fine gusto and grand disregard. Why haggle over the price of pie when money is such a trifling matter? Congressmen should learn to relax as the rest of us have. They should have another cup of coffee and another piece of pie and remember that only a Conservative would think in terms of nickels...