Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 45,000 businessmen paid in licenses and business-privilege taxes another two million into the District's till. The additional 41 millions or so were paid by D. C. citizens who always grouse about taxation without representation, because Congress makes their laws but they cannot vote for Congressmen...
...testified to the Congressmen earnestly; begged them not to limit WPA construction projects to $25,000, not to kill the Theatre Project, not to believe that the Workers Alliance could dictate to him, not to cut his administrative cost allowance below 5%. He invited the committee to cross-question him, but when he finished, he got the silent treatment. Mr. Woodrum just said, "Thank you, Colonel, for your appearance," and sent the committee's bill to the printer...
...great deal of popular enthusiasm, had conveyed the impression that a great many important people were backing it. Of the more than 80 sponsors of the Washington gathering, nearly all bore "The Hon." before their names. Among them were six Cabinet members, a score of Senators, a spate of Congressmen. These big names had been gathered very much as supporters for a bill are gathered by lobbyists...
...bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest compromiser in the Senate. Giving in to an extent almost unknown during the New Deal, Mr. Roosevelt finally told Henry ("Henny-Penny"), Morgenthau it was all right if he wanted to tell the Congressmen to remove certain tax-irritants...
Main obstacle to these amendments is the undying Townsend Plan. Last week smart Bob Doughton and his committee figured out a way to silence Townsendites for this session, hotspot some 60 Republican Congressmen (including Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts) who traded intimations of support for Townsend votes last year. Without reading the latest Townsend Bill, Doughton & Co. got the House Rules Committee to push it onto the floor this week, ban all amendments and force a roll-call vote. "I think you fellows just took this monkey off your backs," joshed Rulesman Martin Dies of Texas. Massachusetts' Republican...