Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raise any substantial part of the vast sum which the President demands will probably mean: 1) a heavy sales tax; 2) a stiff increase in the rates on low and middle-bracket incomes; or 3) both. Viewing this grisly prospect in the perspective of next year's elections, Congressmen shuddered...
...outskirts of Pittsburgh, scattered among three Congressional districts, are labor votes which in 1940 were sufficient to elect Democratic Congressmen from all three districts. Fortnight ago, Governor Edward Martin signed a bill, passed by the legislature after an eight-day Democratic filibuster, which neatly amputated these Democratic areas, added them superfluously to the safely Democratic Pittsburgh district. A similar operation was performed on two Philadelphia districts...
This week Congressmen threatened to sabotage Prentiss Brown's new program. But Brown was confident that he would succeed. First move will be to get the RFC to pay the subsidies. Second move will be to carry the fight to Congress itself and get outright appropriations. Prentiss Brown pointed out that a provision for subsidies is contained in the original price-control...
...picture may seem talky. But no one will be bored by the climax. Ambassador Davies returns from the U.S.S.R., makes a series of shouting stump speeches that should bring on an immediate Dies Committee investigation of Warner Bros. For Mr. Davies (in the film) rips into isolationist Congressmen...
...That a diversion is often created to draw the fire of Press opposition away from the Administration. Example: OPA's assignment of X-cards to Congressmen in 1942, which turned upon Congress most public resentment over gas rationing...