Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspend Saturday half-holidays for Government workers (savings lost: $9,000,000), to abolish the Army & Navy transport service (savings lost: $2,000,000), to withdraw Federal aid from State vocational training schools (savings lost: $8,500,000). When a political idealist named Mouser from Ohio proposed that Congressmen strike their idle relatives from the clerk hire payroll, he was howled down (8840-40) by a membership addicted to nepotism. So excited became the sessions that members loudly complained of "ragged nerves," begged for a recess...
...President Hoover will take a pay cut from $75,000 to $67,025. Cabinet salaries will drop from $15,000 to $13,625. Senators and Congressmen will have $825 deducted from their...
...With 187 Congressmen on record as Wet (TIME, March 21) and the nation economically ailing, antiProhibitionists have been pointing with new emphasis and hope to drink as a source of revenue and employment. Last week the economic argument for Prohibition reform had gathered enough momentum to cause plans for monster "beer parades" throughout the land, and three famed Drys came out in favor of resubmission of Prohibition to the people...
...beauty," declared President Hoover as three Maine Congressmen presented him with the first salmon (164 Ib.) caught this year in the Bangor Pool. Catcher: Harry Chapman...
...certain laws to reduce mandatory expenses rather than snipe at the appropriation bills. The House committee wanted to merge the Army & Navy into one department of defense but the President would not even listen to such a proposal. A general 11 % cut in Federal salaries was favored by the Congressmen. Mr. Hoover countered with a proposition to cut the salaries of the President ($75,000 per year), Cabinet members ($15,000), Senators and Representatives ($10,000) but to furlough other employes without pay and reduce their vacation and sick leave from 30 days to two weeks. Thus the bargaining progressed...