Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...
...Congressmen winced, weaseled, worried. This kind of letter could not be answered with the usual smooth line: "All of the points you raise have been noted." One Congressman was almost tearful...
...wild screaming came, rather, from three general sources: 1) the same unthinking people who join in every race-baiting campaign, 2) the group of Congressmen who characteristically hate everyone not quite like themselves, and 3) some of the local white produce growers and marketers...
...last week clever George Viereck found himself on trial in Washington for not telling his children's Government all about his work for his Fatherland. Witnesses testified that bespectacled, thick-lipped George Viereck had helped write speeches for Congressmen (including Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen), had mailed them throughout the nation in franked envelopes furnished by Congress man Ham Fish's secretary, George Hill (TIME...
This week some Wall Streeters were saying that the tax stew was overdone. For one thing, Congressmen seemed to be getting somewhere with their general sales tax (to ease the burden on corporations and the great middle-class). For another, even if dividend rates were cut in half, most stocks would yield...