Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failing that, in planning for the future. In my opinion, this required equality between the parties and mutual trust. But equality is absent and Government distrust of Congress can be seen at every turn. The result is that suspicion of Government is universal. Add to this the fact that Congressmen have no faith in the competence of Government to ensure India's future good. This want of faith is based upon bitter experience of the past and present conduct of the British administration of India. Is it not high time that you cooperated with the people of India through...
...responsibility for what followed the hasty arrests of Congressmen must rest solely on Government. For they invited the crisis, not the authors of the resolution...
...Writers. Although the 32 novelists, biographers, historians and essayists included in the anthology are famed in their own countries, not a single name is familiar to most U.S. readers. They include two presidents, three ambassadors, five consuls, four cabinet ministers, three congressmen, two League of Nations delegates, two university presidents, one Dominican friar...
...Navy did not interpret Title V so strictly. The author of Title V felt that he had been victimized by an old Army game: Army officers had just been too literal, complained literal-minded Senator Robert A. Taft. But no Congressmen wanted to argue that laws are not meant to be strictly observed. Last week a Senate committee conferred with the War Department, agreed to reword Title V to have it make sense...
...corporal's guard of Congressmen straggled back to Washington's steaming midsummer heat. But there was no indication that they would soon agree on a plan to reconvert the U.S. to peace. At week's end, two Senate reconversion bills -significantly differing-had been rushed out of committee rooms and were ready for action on the floor...