Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn. If he thought that his invitation was a peace overture from the White House instead of a routine bid due him as Democratic national committeeman, Boss McCooey was mistaken. Since the open break between the Administration and Tammany in the New York mayoral election, the 24 erstwhile Tammany Congressmen have begun taking orders from the White House, not from the Hall. Boss McCooey's complete undoing was forecast last week when Brooklyn's Sheriff Frank J. Quayle announced that he was Brooklyn's boss and Federal patronage dispenser, that he had disposed of 150 Federal jobs...
...greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction of its drift indicated that it had turned into another course. No shouts of "Greenbacks! Give us Greenbacks!" rose from the Capitol, but 20 Congressmen adopted a resolution, previously framed by 18 Silver Senators, calling for bimetallism-free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold -"at a ratio to be established by law." Senator Wheeler of Montana and Senator King of Utah called on the President with silver in their mouths. They emerged with...
Last week Father Coughlin was pursuing a course strikingly parallel to that of the inflationists in Congress. When Congressmen walked out from their caucus on remonetizing silver, they could have stopped at any newsstand and bought a copy of Mr. Moley's magazine Today, could have read in it an article by Father Coughlin earnestly advocating symmetallism (a cousin of bimetallism, but with differences perhaps more notable than its likeness to its relative). And the same day that Senator Thomas was revealing to the Press a draft of a bill for substituting gold certificates for the gold reserve...
...power-generating plants in competition with new stations as well. The T.V.A. gives them warning to cooperate, reduce rates, or face the competition of duplicate plants. Over this entire question there has been thrown a great deal of confusion, adulterated with considerable propaganda. Experts and college professors, publicists and Congressmen have been bought up and subsidized by the usual "interested parties," and a great deal of utter bilge has been printed to demonstrate that government ownership, operation, and control, separately or collectively, are inefficient, wasteful, and corrupt. If the cost-accounts of the Tennessee plants are accurately kept and made...
...citadel of journalism -the press galleries of the National Senate and House of Representatives. The Capitol press gallery admission rules specify "persons whose chief attention is given to telegraphic correspondence for daily newspapers or newspaper associations. . . ." It was not Columbia's idea to broadcast directly the voices of Congressmen in debate or dalliance. That departure in governmental publicity, tried in Chile but abandoned because it was too boring (TIME, April 3), would have to be sanctioned by act of Congress. Columbia News Service asked for gallery seats for three Columbia reporters who would take notes like any correspondents...