Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That fight will come before June 30, when President Roosevelt's wartime price-control powers expire. These powers permit the President to pay subsidies for "strategic or critical materials." Opposition Congressmen say they meant magnesium, chrome and mica; the President has assumed, that they could also have meant butter, meat and milk. Congress may not take away the powers he has assumed −a two-thirds vote will be needed. But by simple majority vote, they may well reduce those powers. Already the Farm Bloc's Jesse P. Wolcott, Republican, of Port Huron, Mich., was loading...
...Cairo, when General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck's Britons were falling back. Major Lodge accompanied the first U.S. tanks in Africa-but he was not in one of the three tanks which fought their first battle there. On his return to the U.S., he and other Congressmen went on inactive status. Lodge got himself re-elected to the Senate for another six years. After 18 months of "grave thought," he had decided that "given my age and military training, I must . . . serve my country as a combat soldier in the Army overseas...
...Order of Moose. The man for the post was the State Democratic Chairman. The woman for the post was a fine local lady with eight children. Labor plugged the State Democratic Chairman. Then A.F. of L. and C.I.O. both plugged A.F. of L.'s Dan Tobin. Three ex-Congressmen called to offer themselves. The Governor dragged lapel-hangers along when he walked abroad. Strangers breathed down his neck as he lunched. The phone calls came from all over the country. Telegrams came from both coasts. The Governor's secretary counted the telegrams the third night...
...great world leader." New national chairman named to succeed Postmaster General Frank C. Walker: Missouri's young, professional Robert E. Hannegan (TIME, Jan. 24). Convention city: Chicago. Campaign theme: twelve years of Roosevelt v. twelve years of oldtime G.O.P. "normalcy." Now, Committeemen muttered grimly, lukewarm Democratic Congressmen who have been sniping at the New Deal and then coasting into office on the Roosevelt coattails will have to come to the aid of the Party...
...justified importing aluminum, while cutting back U.S. facilities, on the ground that the closed U.S. plants were using power from coal. The closing of a single plant alone saved a monthly 70,000 tons of coal. But West Coast Congressmen know that no such reasoning applies to their hydroelectric-powered plants. They are keeping their club ready to swing...