Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen saw a rare spectacle: Franklin Roosevelt red-faced with embarrassment...
...renegotiate Northern Pump last year, Hawley howled that the Government was "reneging" on its contract. At the time, he was also occupied in denying a Minneapolis gibe that his yacht was named "Navy Gravy." He had once tried to start a nationwide campaign against the renegotiation act, wired Congressmen (at a rumored cost of $100,000) and mailed handsome brochures to some 14,000 businessmen. He insisted that if he made big money out of the war it was only because he was doing a superlative job. But the Navy ordered him to turn back $15,000,000, left...
...luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York's Roosevelt-baiting John Taber, No. 1 congressional critic of OWI, supported the boost...
...That brings up another thought as to the worth or unworth [of polls]. Most Congressmen are poignantly sensitive to the views of their constituents. Their elections depend on maintaining their popularity. ... It would be idle to assume that they are not moved by them...
Were jurists in the case of Montgomery Ward likely to be affected by the poll? Dr. Gallup thought not. Were Congressmen swayed? Dr. Gallup declared that "all wise Congressmen take public opinion into account in deciding how they shall vote...