Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...27th annual meeting. Turning its back on the Appeasement and the Administration (as the Administration has turned its back on the Chamber since 1934), the Chamber made a direct appeal to Congress for things that the New Deal won't give. It got no less than 300 Congressmen to come to its various dinners to hear a verbal barrage against That Man in the White House and all his works...
...accumulated a fine roster of enemies. By his own inclination and by instruction from the President, Dr. Leiserson proposes to continue literal enforcement of collective bargaining, minus the harsh words now characteristic of NLRB. If his placating presence fails to smooth down A. F. of L., Business and hostile Congressmen, the Administration may even enlarge NLRB, or as a last resort sacrifice Chairman Warren Madden and co-Member Edwin Smith in order to save the Wagner Act from ruinous amendments...
...four girls, aged 16-19, had, with three exceptions, never seen a big city. First stop after they left their strike-bound coal fields was Washington, where they were bedded in a tourist camp, rose at 4:30 to begin sightseeing, ended the day marveling at how little work Congressmen did to earn their...
...American Medical Association and anti-Tucker Congressmen (who last week defeated the bill) object to the Balm of Gilead. Asthma is a disease which may be due to any one of a score of causes. No one "specific" can relieve the disease, says A. M. A., and no "long-distance treatment" can diagnose conditions which require the personal attention of a physician...
...order four immediately. On the theory that the U. S. probably will never have to fight a naval war at home, Navy men in Washington last week still discounted the value of mosquitoes. But the idea of a little boat snapping at a big boat intrigues taxpayers and Congressmen. And in wartime, a healthy small-boat industry will be useful to the Navy...