Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present Henderson is blocked by a determined farm group and resentful Congressmen, who blame him for the troubles of their petty-businessman constituents suffering under price ceilings and for refusing OPA patronage jobs to their politician colleagues. If Henderson remains tied to the coattails of various conflicting and overlapping government agencies, wartime prices will soon work hand in hand with inflation. What is needed to avoid this is an economic high command with unrestricted power to direct all phases of wartime living...
...Military Affairs subcommittee, flying hellbent north on a rush-rush, hush-hush mission to learn the "truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions...
Editor in Ohio. Fourteen pre-war isolationist Congressmen won renominations. For the defeat of No. 15, the loudest of them all, Cleveland newspapers could claim a big red apple...
...handful of Senators and Congressmen became purple last week attacking and defending the McCormick-Patterson publishing family. At hubbub's end the man who had taken the hardest lumps was not widely hated Colonel Robert McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune, but the most engaging member of the family: Captain Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News...
...Secret Service officials. > 51 Congressmen, six radio announcers, five Mayors, seven Governors, 76 newspapermen...