Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan. Reporters at his press conference suggested that this was Harry Truman's way of seeking a "reconciliation" with Congress. There was nothing to reconcile, the President insisted; it was just a simple change in plans to let him catch up on paper work and see all the Congressmen who would like to drop around...
With the air of a man who is sure of his own strength, Mississippi's wily old demagogue John E. Rankin rolled his stupendous veterans' pork barrel onto the floor of the House, and defied the quaking Congressmen to throw it out. What old John wanted was $90 monthly at 65 for every veteran, whether he needed it or not. The cost would add up to something like $125 billion over the next 50 years. But determined John Rankin had posed his colleagues an agonizing choice between conscience and constituents...
Harry Truman thought that the country, in electing him, had given Congress a mandate to enact his program. Last week's events demonstrated that he had another think coming; a good many Congressmen, who represented historic regional interests and prejudices, and a common fear of the extremes in Harry Truman's campaign promises, disagreed. They thought that they also had a "mandate" from the voters (some of them had gotten more votes than Harry Truman in their areas). "The accomplishments of this Congress," said Ohio's Robert Taft, "will not be zero, though they will look like...
...official order of precedence in seating: President, Vice President, Chief Justice, ambassadors, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, U.S. Representative to U.N., ministers, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, governors, Senators, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief, former Vice Presidents, Congressmen...
Until such a time, the Federalists are trying earnestly to keep up overseas contacts, buttonhole Congressmen, put their platform before the public, and increase their membership. The local chapter has around 90 men and the total U.S. enrollment is roughly 40,000. The British Unionists have a good deal more, as do the groups in France and Italy--but there is no evidence, the U.W.F. sadly admits, that there are any Federalists operating in the Soviet Union...