Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the U.S. people (Smug, Slothful, Asleep?) brought an outburst of letters from the people themselves. Many letters-to-TIME have reflected indignation over such issues as the Roberts report on Pearl Harbor, the retirement applications of Admiral Kimmel and General Short, the Lafayette (ex-Normandie) fire, pensions for Congressmen, Mrs. Roosevelt and OCD. But the latest batch -more than 100 of them- went much deeper. Some excerpts...
...Power to Tax. To the U.S., whose national income was $92 billions last year, astrophysical sums are nothing new. But to Congressmen, who face an election in the fall, the job of sluicing over half this income through Government channels was not only new but terrifying. It was especially terrifying to those who realized that the main cost of this war must be borne by the vote-potent low-income groups. Reasons...
Lottery. To give the taxpayer a thrill for his money, some Congressmen who junketed to South America last summer are ballyhooing a national lottery. Their estimates of revenue: $1 billion...
...House, apparently nobody had been present when the pension bill passed without a recorded vote. Papers back home were flooded with honest-I-never-dunnit letters from Congressmen explaining that they had been ill, at the dentist's, out to lunch, writing a speech, carrying the burden of the war. This week the House would get a chance to vote on the repealer. The record would show that little brown pixies had sneaked into the Cham ber, passed pensions while Congress was away, or snoozing...
Washington correspondents depend for most of their news sources which, under such a law, would shut up like clams. Congressmen would be as suspect as anybody else. Reporters would presumably be informed of "secret" material only by notice in the Federal Register -something like notice of divorce suit by advertisement. There was reason to believe that Censor Byron Price liked the bill as little as anybody; and such a law-a death sentence to voluntary censorship-would leave his Office of Censorship with little...