Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing Congressmen were interested in: how to kill the Townsend Plan without inviting political reprisals from thousands of their constituents. Robert Doughton, 71-year-old, 6 ft. -3 in. tall Chairman of Ways & Means, did his colleagues a notable service by cross-examining Dr. Townsend in a way that made it easy for them to laugh him out of the Committee room...
Even in these days, the idea of a capital levy sends cold shivers down the backs of conservative Congressmen. Huey Long's plan still shocks the majority of our people, even in the depths of the depression, and Congressmen know it. All the more remarkable, then, that a virtual capital levy has been passed through their midst without any realization of its significance. No one saw that the capital gains tax takes this form during an inflationary period...
...patronage continued through all the jobs throughout the system. Witness the recent fiasco of a "balanced budget" in the Post Office department, this after the postal rates in first class mail had been raised fifty per cent. Witness the scandals about air-mail contracts. Witness the franking privilege to Congressmen. It is enough to imagine James A. Farley, or his counterpart, running the Pennsylvania Railroad, to vitiate the boast that the Government is yet capable of running a large business...
...history. Gone is the romance and the glory and the prominent personages. You journey through Peacock Alley, pass women from the West who think they are in style; and take a seat in the middle of the Alley. Your interest is aroused by three old codgers (probably ex-Congressmen) talking very loudly--perhaps all are a bit deal--on an adjacent couch. You hear them, as I have sigh and reminisce of the days of Ariemus Ward and James Whitcomb Riley and Uncle Joe Cannon. You hear them curse the speed of the modern generation; you hear them chastise...
...Soviet Congressmen shook their fists at the diplomatic box last week when the German and the Polish charges d'affaires remained seated as Bolsheviks rose and burst into the Internationale. Afterwards German Charge d'affaires Dr. Fritz von Twardowski snapped: ''I had no right to participate in a demonstration for or against Stalin or any other Soviet leader. I consider my failure to rise fully justified in that the Red anthem was sung not as a part of the formal program of the Congress but as part of an ovation for Herr Stalin...