Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cautious, precise, knows what he is about and can always prove it, gets along well with Congressmen of all shades of belief. The only complaint is that he is too meticulous. Last year he built a big rowboat in his basement, listened patiently to the ribbing of acquaintances who were sure he could never get it out the door; when he finished, it cleared the door by a quarter-inch...
...public esteem into which Congress has fallen has worried many a thoughtful legislator-and not just for personal political reasons. With a branch of the U.S. Government under attack, it is high time for Congressmen to brace up - not to save their own hides but to preserve the principle of democratic legislation One such worried Congressman is 40-year-old Aimer Stillwell Mike Monroney...
This was the signal for a more than routine uproar. Columnists, Congressmen and Otter-lovers wanted to know why. A Senate investigating committee took a look, trumpeted: the vessel had not had a full and fair trial; Navy and Maritime Commission officials (Powell, Rear Admiral Emory Land) had been hostile to the sponsors and their idea; obstacles had been deliberately put in the way. Mrs. Walter Lippmann and her good friend Eleanor Roosevelt carried on a vigorous backstage campaign. Mrs. Lippmann's husband thundered that the Maritime Commission was waterlogged with ancient prejudices. "What happened to the Sea Otter...
Army & Navy procurement officers, not wanting to take the zip out of production, are almost as opposed to a statutory limit on war profits as businessmen are. Businessmen, not wanting to be unpopular or unpatriotic, are almost as eager to avoid excessive war profits as Congressmen are. So last week, while Congressmen reconsidered a bill to limit all war-contract profits to 10% or less, the Army & Navy quietly perfected a technique of profit control that businessmen could understand...
...mail that basted Congress (TIME, March 23) made some nasty burns. Congressmen were so sorely galled that some of them even forgot that the voter is always right, and struck back blindly...