Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover had taken the precaution to poll most of Congress by telephone and telegraph last June on his Moratorium. He knew 68 Senators, 276 Congressmen were already pledged to legalize the postponement of $246,000,000 owed the U. S. this year, too many to make the opposition of such men as Speaker Garner in the House and California's Hiram Johnson in the Senate really threatening. But the Democratic House had no intention of speeding up its machinery to give the President the law he wanted in a hurry. He had refused to call a special session...
Before the 1930 elections, and up to three or four months ago, most regular Republicans in Congress loudly decried increased taxation, predicted a quick return to better times, publicly put their faith in Secretary Mellon and large borrowings to pull the Treasury through. Today these same Senators and Congressmen were concurring in the immediate necessity for tax-upping. They talked with President Hoover and left the White House convinced that he would recommend ways & means of raising more revenue. They heard that Secretary Mellon had reached what he felt was the end of his rope in putting out deficit bonds...
...This vital fire below is the pressure of chambers of commerce and of nations of further their own individual interests. Individuals are not so much to blame, nor the oft-abused Congressmen; it is a concentration of pressure at Washington that keeps in operation a tariff which is approved by few. Such tariffs, in the opinion of Frank Simonds, lead to more deaths than wars themselves...
...Upping. All five Congressmen elected last week were avowed enemies of Prohibition. Wets were happily excited at what they claimed was evidence of a growing tide against the 18th Amendment. The chairman of the House's Wet bloc jubilated: "When the 73rd Congress meets we'll have enough strength to vote the repeal of the Amendment." More realistic and practical, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment counted what looked like Wet noses in Congress, announced big gains, named names. A. A. P. A. calculation of members who would vote to submit the 18th Amendment to State Conventions or Legislatures: Senate...
...overturn in a hidebound Republican district in Michigan turned the House of Representatives Democratic. Connecticut, carried by President Hoover by 44,574 votes three years ago, saw its two largest cities swing into the Democratic column. When Mr. Hoover entered the White House, his party had 56 Senators, 267 Congressmen and 30 Governors in power. Last week it had 47 Senators, 214 Representatives, 20 Governors...