Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marriner Eccles, Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley and State Department's Dean Acheson as colleagues. Other members of the U.S. delegation included Edward Eagle Brown, lawyer-president of Chicago's First National Bank, Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson, Vassar Economics Professor Mabel Newcomer, and a quartet of Congressmen from the House and Senate Banking and Currency Committees...
...candidates were not playing hide-&-seek. Ohio's John W. Bricker wound up a 3O-state, 20,000-mile campaign tour in which he had put himself on record more plainly than any other candidate. He talked off-the-record to Washington's 78 Club (freshman G.O.P. Congressmen). Friendly, forthright, he sent them off in a real glow of admiration...
...broad-stroked portrait of the newspaper owner: "In many a community the biggest single political fact may be the existence of a certain newspaper and a certain publisher. In a real sense this man is an arm of government, and a peculiarly irresponsible arm. . . . Mayors, governors, legislators and Congressmen drink at the well of his wisdom. Civic movements start or stop according as he nods or shakes his head...
...conclusion of Sewell Avery's testimony, the Congressmen were still in no mood to approve Attorney General Francis Biddle's bungling of the Ward seizure. But they had a new awareness of the problem named Sewell Avery...
...House, the question stirred warm and weighty debate. Missouri's obstreperous Representative Dewey Short was roaring hot for immediate "justice." He roared: "It is shameful, it is disgraceful, that these trials have not already been held. . . ." Around Dewey Short rallied some Congressmen who believe the people have an urgent right to know all about Pearl Harbor, and others who believe that a public parceling of blame may embarrass Franklin Roosevelt...