Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Congressmen come to a proper sense of their national responsibility, maybe then this vicious lobby will, like the three Presidents you mentioned, be itself once and for all put in its proper place...
...precedent-breaking Representative was assigned to the House Memorials Committee, whose duty it is to compose sonorous resolutions of mourning on the deaths of Congressmen or notables. Because its other Democratic member was otherwise occupied, Congressman Hamlin was named the Committee's chairman. It was the first time in House history that a first-termer had been honored with a committee chairmanship, but the Gentleman from Maine did not rejoice. All one day last week eight large Negro charwomen toiled to prepare for him the House Office Building suite of the Memorials Committee chairman. But in his old office...
...reached a peak of 1,050,000. Last year it was down to 887,000. This year, with the prospect of more cash, it hopes to finish with 1,250,000 dues-paying members. Three-quarters of the Legion membership is in small towns, the kind from which most Congressmen come. Each Legionary has four or five voting relatives and friends who will use their ballots as he suggests. This political combination is what makes the Legion lobby so fearfully effective in Washington...
...veto of a law for full payment of the bonus certificates, will mean little by the time a bonus bill comes to passage. For the Senators committed themselves against "outright and immediate payment." In short, they are opposed to yielding to the Legion's full demand. In most Congressmen's minds the issue had last week boiled down to a question of how much cash to give. Messrs. Taylor & Belgrano have not yet set their seal to any definite bill. To compromise before it is necessary would only weaken their bargaining position. But the fiction of bonus bookkeeping...
...other reason than the fact that for a decade it has not once aroused the wrath of congressmen it serves, Potomac Electric Power Co. deserves the handsome compliment lately paid it by the New York State Power Authority. That body called it "an outstanding case of successful private operation of a public utility." Before it subscribed to the Washington Plan in 1924, Potomac Electric was a constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained...