Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen were sure there was more than met the eye in his stop order. He blamed the big steel companies, said they feared to develop Southern ore deposits that might upset their national balance after the war. He blamed the "Godawful War Production Board of self-seeking men with large incomes." He said he could have got the steel on the black market if they had let him alone-thus illuminating one big reason why no one yet knows where the U.S.'s steel is going. And neither he nor his Congressmen-nor the U.S. at large-could...
Four men had accomplished a gigantic legislative squeeze. Lobbyists Earl Smith of Illinois and Ed O'Neal of Alabama and Congressmen Clarence Cannon of Missouri and Everett Dirksen of Illinois now had the Administration, the Congress and some five million farm operators in a tight vise...
...decade of lobbying and fighting for power, the two Farm Bureau chiefs and the two Congressmen had never been sitting quite so pretty as they were last week. By preventing the passage of the farm bill, they had tied up the Administration's basic wartime food plan...
...Deal agency that keeps small farmers and marginal farmers on their feet-the farmers who by comparison get the skim milk after the top-drawer farmers have taken the cream. FSA can help 500,000-odd small-time farmers produce much-needed foodstuffs. But the Farm Bureau and their Congressmen hate FSA with a real and poisonous hatred; FSA helps impoverished Negroes and whites to own their own 40 acres and a mule, to gain independence, to pay their poll taxes, to assert their rights as individuals...
Grant said "Congressmen are supposed to be picked because they evidence certain qualities justifying their election. Let them lead in those matters which are crying for attention or let them get out. We need in Congress more men of courage and conviction. Men who are willing to risk their jobs." The audience cheered...