Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave youth something more toughly tangled than woodsy trails to worry about. CCC camps recently dropped to 400, enrollment to 80,000 boys. But even that was 400 camps too many for some Congressmen. CCC boys, they pointed out, now came mainly from rural districts where they were badly needed...
...hundred Congressmen met in caucus, demanded Congress be given full facts, battered away at Leon Henderson. Said Tennessee's Republican John Jennings Jr.: "... a smart aleck . . . dictator...
...foreign policy Will Jr. has been ahead of most Congressmen. Early last year his editorials called for throwing out all appeasers, asked a declaration of war on Germany "when necessary...
When the emergency came, Somervell went back to Washington, soon walked into one of the worst messes of his career. The Quartermaster Corps (which is now in S.O.S.) had bungled its camp-building job and Somervell was called in. He straightened it out, so deftly that some Congressmen still think there was something fishy. By the time they had reached that conclusion, Somervell was gone, first to the supply job on the General Staff, then to S.O.S...
Surprised Boss. Mr. Lincoln told the Congressmen that his bonus system had surpassed even his own wildest dreams. When they heckled him, he said "I don't blame you. In 1933, if you had told me that I would be paying bonuses of 100% of the salaries and still reducing the costs, I wouldn't have believed you either." To committee counsel Edmund Toland's contention that these bonuses (plus a $1,000,000 trust fund established to retire extra wartime workers) had milked the Government out of over $4,000,000 in taxes from...