Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marna Angell's, "Agenda for Victory" falls far below the publication's usual calibre. She assumes that repeal of the poll tax will "assure" more progressive Congressmen from the South, and that labor-management committees will endure unchallenged after the war. Similar unsupported statements scattered through her essay rob it of any real value...
...bloc of 75 Western Congressmen demanded a 90-day deferment of nationwide rationing, to them a wholly unnecessary act. Michigan's Representative Frank Hook got cheers for suggesting a clipping of Leon Henderson's authority, but the hefty OPA head stood his ground. Oil had to be sent to North Africa, said he, even if it meant epidemic pneumonia in the East. (North Atlantic ports are 1,400-odd miles nearer Casablanca than the oil ports of the Gulf of Mexico...
...last week a little group of Congressmen got together to crusade for their idea. Joining forces were Harry S. Truman and Harley M. Kilgore (of the Senate's Truman Investigating Committee), John H. Tolan (of the House's Tolan Investigating Committee), James E. Murray (Senate Small Business Committee) and Claude Pepper (Senate Labor Committee). New Dealers all, they went ahead this time without White House approval. Said they: "In eight months this war can be won if we tackle now a resolute overhauling of the war-production machine...
Except for Moore, Democrats held the G.O.P. revolt in check. They squeezed in New Dealish Robert S. Kerr as Governor by 15,000 votes, elected seven of Oklahoma's eight Congressmen. Because Republicans underestimated their own strength, dozens of local offices went to the Democrats by default...
...original draft bill, Congress has consistently set political opportunism against military necessity. While claiming to speak for its constituents, it has actually been left at the post again and again by an awakened public opinion. It only remains for that public opinion to make itself audible--even to Congressmen...