Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen Congressmen rarely make a national name except by eccentricity. But Fulbright made Congressional history by writing and getting passed a one-sentence resolution. This, now famed as the Fulbright Resolution, served as a basis for the Republican Mackinac resolution, put the House on record against isolation and prodded the Senate into a similar stand, and thus prepared the way for the Moscow Agreement (TIME...
P.A.C.'s record to date in its few tries at the polls has been up & down. Its strength was suddenly dramatized by the defeat or abdication of Congressmen Joe Starnes, John Costello and Martin Dies-all from the South, where P.A.C. is least powerful. But Congressmen John Rankin and Gene Cox, also from the South, handily won renomination despite P.A.C., and their colleagues in the House generally breathed a little easier...
Even then, unless the election is very close, its actual national strength will be difficult to gauge. This will be all right with Strategist Hillman. For his first task is to establish P.A.C. as a threatening force, to which Congressmen and politicos in both parties must pay attention...
Nothing Highfalutin. P.A.C. was formed at a C.I.O. executive committee meeting in July 1943. The Smith-Connally bill had just been passed; antilabor Congressmen were riding high & hard. Organized labor, its name blackened by John Lewis' four wartime strikes, was under attack from every quarter. And labor was angry at Franklin Roosevelt: his War Labor Board had stopped every drive for higher wages...
...reassure Congressmen and U.S. bankers, most of whom now oppose the plan, Harry White will have to convince them of just the reverse. This is not quite as impossible as it sounds. A world stabilization fund would be in effect a modification of the international gold standard (just as the Federal Reserve System modified the domestic gold standard). Fortunately for White, all modifications can be described in terms either of their likeness to or difference from their original...