Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again a contemptuous laugh went up from the nation. This time it was X-cards for Congressmen...
...People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressmen 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...
...never demanded that its Congressmen be always right or always brilliant. But Congress' own worry about its place in the sun was evidence last week that the nation was fed up with demagoguery and stubborn stupidity, pleased that political hacks were getting exactly what they deserved. Out with the Rascals. The next Congress, mostly to be elected in November, is likely to serve through fire and fury, through the desperately crucial years of the greatest war the U.S. has ever fought. If the two years bring victory, this Congress will shape the peace which will determine the course...
...Cowed. In Washington, the people's representatives set the people no high example. Congressmen asserted their right to X cards, stood ready to fight any suggestion that they should sacrifice, too. A sly resolution by California's Senator Sheridan Downey asking Congress to waive "any special rights, privileges," raised a fearful storm, was crushed by a 62-to-2 vote. (Pepper of Florida was Downey's lone supporter...
Editor Osés was hauled up three months ago for saying that a visit of Argentine congressmen to the U.S. prepared a "Yankee invasion" of Argentina. In July 1940 he was arrested for obscenity, for printing an ostensibly mild lampoon of Winston Churchill which was an acrostic: the first letter of each line combined to read "One must be English to be a son of a whore." Editor Osés never stayed long in jail. When impetuous police raided Pampero's office last fall, Acting President Castillo promised that Pampero would be "unmolested, uncontrolled and the publication...