Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their Congressmen they write: "You won't kill a Jap with your yap." The people want to be smartly and strongly...
...cloakrooms of Congress the cigar smoke last week was slightly tinged with sulfur. Congressmen, nerve-frayed and work-weary, were hopping mad at the press for "pouring it on," for attacking good and bad members indiscriminately, the fatheads with the intelligent, the timeservers with the conscientious...
...Some Congressmen spoke darkly of hauling up some offending editors and columnists before Congressional committees, of ramming through libel laws to shake the press's teeth, of getting radio time to take their case to the people. Isolationists, whose pre-Pearl Harbor record has frequently been thrown back at them, cried for an investigation of an alleged "smear" gang said to be behind...
Congressional choler rose high over X cards especially, because Congressmen believed that the press had sicked the public on them, had failed to expose the number of Washington bureaucrats with X cards...
...heat that finally sent Congressmen's rage sky-high was Columnist Raymond Clapper's remark: "People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress...