Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many were so chary of his charm. Scores of the oats-feeling young Congressmen went away impressed almost to the point of real fondness for the President. Two days later the normal reaction came. The House, 268-to-129, figuratively aimed a swift kick at the President by adopting the Disney bill (see p. 12), in angry and direct repudiation of Government by directive...
...built up Fascist Spain's oil stocks "considerably higher than the present per capita distribution of the Atlantic seaboard of the U.S." To many this smelled of State Department appeasement-the kind once tendered Japan and Vichy. Sections of the U.S. press viewed with alarm. Some Eastern Congressmen viewed with anger...
Franklin Roosevelt's postwar social security program plumped last week into the lap of Congress. Thumbing through the 721 type-packed pages, hoisting the 5¾ Ib. of solid weight, blinking at the long footnotes. Congressmen tried valiantly to say something equally weighty...
...most Congressmen merely mumbled. Murmured Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I have not studied it completely yet, but I do feel that some of the suggestions are very good." House Majority Leader John W. McCormack ducked: "This is one of the most important issues we have to face...
...Navy made no comment. But in turning down his own promotion, George Marshall had made anti-Navy ammunition for Congressmen to fire at will. If the "Admiral of the Fleet" bill ever gets to the floor of the House, it is sure to get some sniping...