Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People down here are pretty sick of hearing what's coming. No one I've talked to thus far would mind any sacrifice in order to win the war. But their Congressmen don't seem to realize this. Once again the people are far ahead of Congress...
...Congressmen had some of the courage necessary to win a war they would freeze all commodity prices, all service prices, all wages and salaries as of October...
Also back in Washington last week were two other Congressmen newly returned from wartime service: shrewd, taciturn Francis Eugene Walter of Pennsylvania, after six months of offshore patrol out of Norfolk, Va., and short, blond Warren Grant Magnuson of Washington who served with Admiral Halsey on Pacific task-force expeditions. They will have to stay on land, under a new Presidential order, until Franklin Roosevelt decides they are needed on active duty again. Until then, Representatives Johnson, Walter and Magnuson can tell fellow-Congressmen what modern war is really like...
...public servant who has always accepted the facts of war as facts of life is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. In pre-Pearl Harbor days he drove isolationist Congressmen to frenzy with his blunt warnings of imminent danger. Last week he spoke out again, on the much-evaded, politically ticklish question of drafting 18-to-20 year olds...
...Senate approved a $125,000,000 appropriation for his price hawks and rationing administrators: $50,000,000 more than an unfriendly House had doled out, and nearly as much as Henderson thinks he needs. Henderson had won an important point: he got his money without giving in to Congressmen who wanted political OPAppointments...