Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind them, locked it. Then they took off their coats & waistcoats, rolled up their sleeves, loosened their collars. Cigars were lighted, green cuspidors adjusted as the ten legislators sat down around a big mahogany table and spread out a mass of papers before them. When the same Senators and Congressmen emerged 13 hours later they had finished writing the heaviest tax law the nation has ever had to shoulder in peace time. Practically every man, woman & child in the land will contribute something toward the $1,115,000,000 in new revenue which will start coming in 15 days after...
...State Stimson and of the Treasury Mills could be spotted under the New York placard. Secretary of War Hurley, aggressive and smiling, would be with his fellow Oklahomans. The Missouri contingent would contain Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the Virginia delegation Secretary of Labor Doak. But of all the Senators, Congressmen and Cabinet members present none would compare in influence and importance to Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Ohio, President Hoover's pre-convention manager and his personal representative at Chicago...
...until 1945 if necessary" to get an immediate cash settlement of the bonus.* While most of the B. E. F. ("Bonus Expeditionary Force") eked out a meagre existence from day to day on Mulligan stews and coffee, their leaders began to lobby. By the end of the week 145 Congressmen (the requisite number) had signed a petition to force a House vote on the Patman bill for immediate Bonus cashing. June 13 was set for the roll call...
...apparently expected that the cupidity of these towns and sections will demand that their Congressmen and Senators vote for this bill or threaten to penalize them if they fail to join in this squandering of money. . . . Our nation was not founded on the pork barrel, and it has not become great by political logrolling...
...staff their offices produced results last week. A resolution by North Carolina's Warren to open the April payroll to public inspection was adopted. This was brought about largely by a series of crusading dispatches by inquisitive United Pressman Raymond Clapper, whose digs and jabs made relative-hiring Congressmen blush. The average House member who pays his wife, son or daughter to clerk for him wrathfully refuses to discuss publicly the details of the arrangement. Newsmen had to puzzle out the House's payroll for April by themselves. They found: ¶ One hundred members with clerks...