Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eligible to join; and since this would mean some 100,000,000 people, we could all dive into the pork barrel with three big cheers and a hip, hip, hooray. Our numbers would be ample to throw the fear of God into a considerable body of chicken-livered Congressmen who become panicky at the mere mention of veterans' votes. The disgusting spectacle of a lobby so powerful that it can override the veto of even President Roosevelt is a thing calculated to incite some kind of action on the part of every right-thinking American. Why does not TIME...
...York Stock Exchange have been going to Washington quite frequently in the last two years. One day last week Washington went to the Stock Exchange. On a self-financed week-end junket "to inspect the different things in New York we Legislators are legislating about," 100 Congressmen & wives trooped into the visitors' gallery, eyed the brokers' antics with astonishment. President Richard Whitney tried to explain what was going on but the junketing Congressmen soon left to see 90 tons of gold in the Federal Reserve vaults, to visit Ellis Island on fireboats...
Enactment of the Independent Offices Appropriation bill added some $228,000,000-$125,000,000 for raising government salaries including those of the President who vetoed it and of the Congressmen who voted it; $103,000,000 for additional veterans' pensions. But that was of minor importance compared to the fact that Congress, tasting blood for the first time, had defeated President Roosevelt on a New Deal principle...
...Wirt in Gary. Said he: "I meant every word of it and I'll have more to say if I am called before an investigating committee in Washington. . . . Whether I shall give the names of my informers I shall decide at the time. "There are lists of Congressmen who oppose the Brain Trust program-a blacklist made so that when the time for punishment comes those in power will know whom to punish. . . . "If it requires that I be a sacrifice to get the people to thinking about what is going on, I am willing...
...leave his glasses case on the rostrum I of course am not in a position to dispute that part of the statement. ... As for the claim that he has never made a speech in the House, don't you think it would be a good idea if more Congressmen would emulate his splendid example? E. K. CHEADLE...