Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three hours, Willkie parried questions and thrust answers at an off-the-record dinner of freshman G.O.P. Congressmen. His hearers (who included such guests as Republican Leader Joseph Martin and New York's veteran James Wadsworth) agreed that Willkie's manner had been aggressive, some even said truculent. Willkie told Congressmen he could have the Presidential nomination if he wanted it; he was ready to go over their heads to the people. Old wiseheads, not hostile to Willkie, summed: a poor show...
...Some of these labor organizations are beginning to take on the color of the old Anti-Saloon crowd in its palmy days before Repeal. They have the same kind of political and financial power to coerce government agencies, to threaten individual Congressmen and to frighten liberal critics by labeling them as opponents of a great moral cause. . . . Independent businessmen, consumers and farmers have had to sit back in enraged helplessness while labor used coercion for the following purposes: Price control, eliminating cheap methods of distribution, creating local trade barriers by restricting the use of materials made outside the state, preventing...
...world contains two kinds of men: gentlemen and others. In his rougher dealings with possible assassins (the legend is that Starling can "sense" a crank in a crowd), gentlemanly Colonel Ed has been known to address a suspicious character as "pahdner." Ambassadors, foreign potentates, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, newsmen and other citizens are "suh." Through five Administrations, suh, there have been gentlemen in the White House...
Most notable piece of Rayburn generalship occurred in the summer of 1941, when Congress wrestled over extending the one-year life of the draft. For weeks it seemed certain Congress would defeat the bill. Sam Rayburn sweated day & night, persuading, cajoling, pleading with the members. Congressmen worried desperately over the political effect of the bill on mothers & fathers. But Sam Rayburn was convinced that defeat of the bill would be disastrous to the U.S. When the day for the vote arrived, Sam Rayburn was in a state of honest mental anguish; neither he nor anyone else knew for certain...
...labor expert, she was 'collecting $28,500 annually in fees from private clients by 1942 while drawing a salary of $7,500 as New York Social Security Director (TIME, May 18, 1942). Despite the outraged cries of Congressmen, she went right on collecting for her public & private advice on labor. But when she took over the WMC job, she dropped private advising, concentrated on a solution for Buffalo's manpower muddle. The solution: the Buffalo, or "controlled referral" plan...