Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tremendous wail, protesting in the name of all the well known "American rights" and an individualism whose ruggedness apparently claims the right to poison with governmental approbation. Failing this first move, they have now stooped to the more effective course of preventing public mention of the topic until wavering congressmen can be persuaded that it is worth their while not to be too serious concerning the public welfare...
...There is one thing which is opposed to this, however. The President has to exercise patronage to control legislation. In order to have congressmen vote for his bills he is obliged to make arbitrary appointments in all branches of the government. He has no other whiplash over the House and the Senate except public support, such as he enjoys at present. When he is out of favor with a part of the people, he must rely on the spoils system. He should be given the right to adjourn the Congress once in his term, and make the legislators stand public...
...should concern themselves with Chaucer the poet (I agree!), while graduates should be principally occupied with historical and linguistic matters (here I object!). Let me assure you that for a graduate Chaucer is, or should be, also primarily a poet, as he is, or should be, for the professors, congressmen, the janitor of the building, etc. If anything, he should be more poet to the graduates, the teachers-to-be, lest they later succumb to the temptation to treat him as a unit in an historical series or even merely as something to be decently garlanded with so-called facts...
...months was to oust great crowds of starlings from downtown Washington. At night CWA men climbed trees, scaled roofs, went after the birds. Result was that the starlings fled for sanctuary to the Capitol. Flocks of them darkened the dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged a series of automobile horns around the building, blew them all periodically by pressing a button. When he pressed, the starlings took flight. When he stopped they alighted. Then he sent men with...
...Congressmen were swamped with red-hot pleas. Governors wailed to the President that their States would never be able to carry the unemployment load if the Federal Government stepped out from under...