Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road he chose. After a time when they began to bray in protest, he allowed them to nibble his succulent provender. The New Deal has now created some 70,000 Federal jobs outside the Civil Service and cries of "too much patronage" are now rising louder & louder. But hungry Congressmen remain unsatisfied. Last week as prelude to a House caucus on patronage six Democrats headed by Speaker Byrns marched into the White House to inform President Roosevelt that Representatives were not getting proper service on their requests for patronage, that one prominent official had actually insulted patronage-seekers by telling...
...Hearst lobbyist is John A. Kennedy, who went from Iowa to get a job on Hearst's Washington Herald, work up to his Universal Service. Plausible and pontifical, he is equally adept at slapping Congressmen on the back or awing them with suave dinners at the Metropolitan Club. Nominally a newshawk, he resigned temporarily from the Congressional Press Galleries in 1932 to swing around the country coaxing antiWorld Court commitments from Congressional candidates, lately resigned again to head the latest Hearst offensive against the Court...
...over the U. S. men marked Feb. 4 on their calendars. Bankers gave up the profitable business of importing gold after the last ship sailed from Europe to arrive in the U. S. before Feb. 4. Congressmen kept their social calendars clear in case President Roosevelt should have important work for them to do on Feb. 4. Investors ceased buying and selling securities and the stock markets all but stood still, waiting for Feb. 4. The Securities Exchange Commission prepared to close all markets to prevent violent fluctuations of prices on Feb. 4. Attorney General Cummings, Secretary Morgenthau and President...
...onetime Throne Room of Tsar Nicholas II and are known as the All-Union Congress of Soviets. The Congress is content that its members do not rule Russia but merely ratify the acts of the Stalin dictature. Hand-picked by Communist agents in the provinces for this duty, the Congressmen and Congresswomen are of a type to enjoy it thoroughly. Last week Santa Stalin and all the good Congressfolk of all the Russias had a genuinely thrilling time in the high-walled, high-spired Kremlin...
...Congressmen had grown to dislike Secretary Ickes because he would not listen to their pleas for political patronage or for "pork" from the $3,300,000,000 Public Works fund he administers. To save time he would receive Congressional callers at his office in batches, require them to come up to his desk and whisper their requests. Senator Sheppard of Texas once had to wait eight days to get a private appointment. So intense was the feeling against Secretary Ickes at the Capitol last week that House Democrats refused to vote an additional $4,000,000,000 for public works...