Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour-week hullabaloo in Congress. He told his colleagues their hysteria was needless. The critical mail pouring into Washington had been inspired by old enemies of the New Deal. The motive: to destroy New Deal labor laws. The "grass roots" uprising in the South was an organized campaign. Congressmen bellowing about the 40-hour week had better go home, talk to the voters...
...even into Washington evidence had penetrated that the people knew they were at war, that they simply wanted to be told what they could do, that they wanted to do more than had been asked of them. Congressmen who had received a mere 500 letters a week now got as many...
...feature of their code that the news analyst should urge people to put the heat on their Congressmen? If it was, there were no signs of it in the broadcasts of Vice Presidents Davis and Swing...
...Congressmen noted that many of the letters that had deluged them on the labor question (TIME, March 30) advised them to listen to Kaltenborn. Listening, they found that Kaltenborn was being more than a commentator. In mid-March he took labor as an issue and, going beyond criticism, became virtually a stump speaker. Samples...
Early last week dozens of Congressmen had become incensed over Kaltenborn's crusade. But by week's end the storm had blown over. Most people believed that Commentator Kaltenborn's intentions were all right. The misconceptions he had helped spread abroad were corrected, chiefly by Franklin Roosevelt and Donald Nelson but also by careful newscasters, including Davis and Swing...