Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-&-blue thrills ran up & down backs of Congressmen when Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, told this fact to his colleagues. He was just explaining how unconquerably large the U.S. Navy will be when 1,900,000 tons of warships (see p. 45) provided in a bill which last week unanimously passed the House, have been completed...
...Congressmen on the floor of the House did their best to realize what a historic announcement had issued from Carl Vinson's prosaic lips. He had, in effect, announced that some time between 1944 and 1946 the U.S. would emerge as a world power fabulously more dominant than Britain ever...
...little as two years ago the nation would have been shocked at Carl Vinson's announcement. Last week Congressmen applauded. But Americans had not yet fully understood -if, indeed, he had fully understood himself -the fateful, the far-reaching, the now inevitable implications of what he said...
...Congressmen filed hungrily into the ornate, high-ceilinged House restaurant one noonday last week, big pots of white-bean soup bubbled in the kitchen. White-bean soup has been a tradition on the House menu since the day, years ago, when mighty Speaker Joe Cannon thunderously decreed: "By God, we are going to have bean soup in here every day." Uncle Joe's daily lunch was bean soup and cornbread. Daily lunch of thousands of good men & true ever since has been bean soup and cornbread, with maybe a dash of ketchup...
...clock pointed to 1. Suddenly the restaurant's colored waiters sidled towards the doors. Suddenly, as if by magic, they disappeared. Bean soup (15?) was on the menu, all right, but there would be no soup served that day. The waiters to the nation's Congressmen had gone on strike -the first strike in the Capitol's history...