Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record was a curiously uneven document. It came into being as the people's answer to the wretched 77th, which had botched and boggled its way into history, cursed from coast to coast for its pensions-for-Congressmen, its personal X-cards for gas, its lack of statesmanship...
...years ago the Federal Communications Commission discovered that Georgia's wirehaired, rabble-rousing Representative Gene ("Goober") Cox had received a $2,500 gift of stock from radio station WALB (Atlanta, Ga.), after helping the station get its license from FCC. (By law, Congressmen are forbidden to accept fees for practicing before Government bureaus.) Ever since then, Gene Cox has tried to tear FCC apart...
...convention in Manhattan up rose earnest, ineffectual A. F. of L. President William Green to urge the defeat of every Congressman who voted for the Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike bill. Said he: "Be ready for the fight in 1944. Go back home and organize. Let the Congressmen know that labor never forgets...
...point Congressmen laughed-at the President's crack that discussing all the difficulties in the bill would make his message as confused as the bill itself. At 4:22 p.m. Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen completed the count: 228 to override the veto (every Republican vote except four), 154 to sustain...
Last week sponsors of B2H2 bluntly served notice that they would demand debate on their resolution when Congress returns this autumn. Then they announced a bold and backbreaking plan to enlist popular support. Throughout the heat of July and August, eight teams of Congressmen-one Democrat and one Republican to a team-will stump 26 States in favor of B2H2. Republican Joe Ball, teamed with Tennessee's Representative Albert Gore, started the tour this week on the West Coast. Besides the other three authors of B2H2, the teams include, from the Senate: Missouri's Truman, Michigan...