Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to have representative government, we have to have Congress. If all the Congressmen were brilliant, efficient and singleminded, they wouldn't represent the people. Not the people I know, anyway; maybe they would represent the people on Mars...
...know they're not angels or geniuses, but we'd feel kind of funny if they were-like impostors. Maybe they're not as smart as their detractors, or as good, or as nearly right. But those same detractors have some awfully queer ideas, and the Congressmen have our ideas. As long as our representatives have a little power, we count on them to save us from, those queer ideas...
John Vorys, a notable member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has a first-hand authority about war & peace which few U.S. Congressmen command. He jumped into World War I as a fighter-pilot of the famed "Yale Unit."* He has roamed China; he watched the Washington Naval Limitations Conference of 1921-22 as assistant secretary of the American delegation, piloted a patrol plane off the Florida coast in the summer...
West Virginia Congressmen might well tremble at their plans. They intend, for instance, to broadcast not only how the West Virginia delegation splits on controversial bills, but also an intimate, behind-the-scenes analysis of the reasons involved. Says Chernoff: "We have absolutely no ax to grind. We only want to ... review the activities of prominent West Virginians in national service...
Fortnight ago the WASPs were wondering whether they were going to become unwanted women. Congressmen muttered among themselves about abolishing the WASPs now that the Civil Aeronautics Administration program is winding up, releasing at least 900 experienced men flyers who might be used as ferry pilots. But General Arnold announced that the men were needed elsewhere, that he needed more WASPs...