Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sobersided Congressmen reported the temper of the people: Congress should retain every bit of its hard-won independence, but should use its new power to work with the President for the common good...
...months ago the Fulbright Resolution, pledging U.S. postwar cooperation, would have thrown the House into an uproar. Congressmen feared it as a bold proposal. Now it seemed to be a very mild little document, less specific even than the Republican foreign policy adopted at Mackinac (TIME, Sept. 20). This week it was set to slide through the House with a whoop...
...statement that he urges the reader to consider well. Said Dennis: "Our only hope from now on is Congress. I've been needling them . .. and I intend to keep on." But it would not, he indicated, be plain sailing, since in his opinion not even the "best" Congressmen and their friends were entirely capable of introducing the New Order. He was specific about...
...Congressmen were members of a joint committee on war minerals, looking into a possible solution of the impending U.S. petroleum shortage. The show was staged by Dr. R. R. Sayers, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. But despite all the foofaraw, the Congressmen's ride was less epoch-making than it seemed. The plain scientific fact is that at the 1941 rate of consumption the U.S. is not likely to need coal for gasoline for at least 200 years. Reasons...
...mighty proud of its new program, Congress Speaks (Tues., 10:30-10:45 p.m., E.W.T.). In four and a half months the series has built up a coast-to-coast audience-just letting Congressmen air their minds and tempers on the hottest controversial issues of the week. Incredibly, there were no major boners, no embarrassing moments-until last week...