Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen were inspired and frightened by the deluge of mail. Virginia's lean, soft-spoken Congressman Howard W. Smith, who has tried, tried, and tried again to club labor with legislation, came forward with his newest dreamboat: a bill to throw out all closed-shop contracts for the duration, wipe out all wage-hour agreements, overtime payments...
...From a short-range viewpoint, it is directly detrimental to the war effort. The training of skilled laborers in NYA schools is undoubtedly a war activity, for without those skills the basic defense industries would be forced to close down. CCC boys are admittedly of military age, but few Congressmen have dared to assert that soil erosion and wastage of natural resources are of no bearing on wartime supply problems. Considered in its longterm affects, the bill is even more foolish. Several tens of thousands of college students are directly dependent on NYA funds for their educations. If the money...
That last remark was what made Congressmen really wince...
Well might Congressmen worry. Some letters and telegrams had ten or 20 signatures. Small-town forums gathered to roast their representatives. Some of the letters criticized the President too: The public is weary of so much talk from the White House and so little action...
...power lines into a plant abuilding at Lake Catherine, Ark., which will turn out 65,000 tons of aluminum a year. Nelson told his man Cliff Hill to get it done. That afternoon the order went out to the Rural Electrification Administration, while private power men and Congressmen squawked...