Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sized fight between President Roosevelt and Congress over veterans' pensions was cut short last June by the hurried adjournment of the Hundred Day special session. That adjournment by no means settled the issue for Congressmen who like to battle, bleed and die for pensioners. They could afford to compromise with the White House in 1933 because there was no election that year. But this is 1934 and the whole House and one third of the Senate must go to the voters in November. That difference largely accounted for last week's resurgence of the pension problem on Capitol...
...Well did Congressmen know that in every Legion post throughout the land is posted the record of how each Congressman votes on pensions. Firm is every Congressman's belief that each Legionary can control five votes for or against him. Easy would it be for Congressmen to explain that when the President had unbalanced the budget by nine billions, a few millions more or less for pensions would not matter...
...voice cannot be heard. When its voice cannot be heard it might as well not exist. Hence General Johnson, whose NRA did not begin teething until after Congress adjourned last June, was troubled for months by the complaints of old guard businessmen, but not by the caterwauling of Congressmen. To be sure. Senators Borah and Nye wrote him protesting that NRA was driving small businesses to the wall and turning trusts loose on a career of price fixing. To be sure, they appealed to the President and were given to understand that the Federal Trade Commission might be given power...
...Capitol Hill last week marched a cohort of Birth Controllers for their annual harangue before unheeding Congressmen. At the head of the column strode Mrs. Margaret Sanger in green cloth, and Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn in black...
...HAVE PLOWED THE FURROW and planted the good seed; the hard beginning is over. . . ." All hard Congressmen liked that sonorous part of President Roosevelt's State of the Union message. But when he said, "We are, fortunately, building a strong and permanent tie between the legislative and executive branches of the Government," eyebrows shot up. Senator McNary (Republican) called it "the finest repeal of the Constitution I have ever heard...