Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan went unobtrusively elegant British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, from private meetings with Congressmen and State Department bigwigs, a last-minute call on Eleanor Roosevelt. He talked off-the-record to Manhattan newsmen, committed himself on the Brooklyn Dodgers ("A great ball team"), visited the Herald Tribune's Ogden Reids. After a 'round-the-city sightseeing tour (including Coney Island), he was off to Washington again with Lord Halifax...
...significant and pregnant fact was clear last week to U.S. Senators and Congressmen : almost all of those who had regularly used the Congressional radio rooms to keep in touch with their constituents had also been re-elected...
...engineer named Robert J. Coar. In 1936 they hit on the idea of recording personal messages to Capper's electorate and shipping them to Kansas for local radio stations to play. With his aid, Coar set up equipment in the House and Senate Office Buildings. Now about 150 Congressmen package their voices for home consumption as often as twice a week. The charge is $5 for a 15-minute recording plus coaching in showmanship...
...casualty was John E. Hamm, Leon Henderson's cousin, who resigned as Senior Deputy Administrator. Next, C. David Ginsburg, once Leon Henderson's right hand, resigned as General Counsel. Deferred from military service at Leon Henderson's request, Lawyer Ginsburg, 30, sought an Army commission, as Congressmen fumed. Prentiss Brown moved shrewdly: he had already ordered no draft deferments for anyone on OPA's payroll...
...Nearest thing to combat duty for WAACs is a new task: manning instrument detectors for anti-aircraft batteries, which Brigadier General M. G. White told Congressmen "they do a lot better than men and learn more quickly...