Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Congressmen could not see why in winter, when days are short, the extra hour of daylight gained by sending workers home before dark would not be lost again in the morning, by getting them up before dawn. Clarence Lea explained: home consumption, morning or night, is of secondary importance; the peak consumption of power is caused by factories and offices between 5 and 7 p.m. By cutting down on this load, the Administration hopes to save 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year-enough juice to produce over 70,000,000 Ib. of much-needed aluminum...
Like a schoolmaster caning a child and then roaring that he must not weep, the President had said: "Until this job is done, until this war is won, we will not talk of burdens." Congressmen crept off into their cloakrooms to groan in quiet-all except the good gooseherds of the tax committees: North Carolina's hamhanded, aged (78) Representative Robert L. Doughton, and Georgia's urbane, grey (64) Senator Walter F. George...
Even Senators joined in the questioning. Congressmen, specialists in naval affairs, asked with quiet fury: "Where is the Navy? Tell me that? Do you know? What's it doing?" There was a widespread ripple of emotion throughout the country last week at the fall of Manila (see p. 19). But the U.S. can expect stronger waves of emotion in this war-grief, rage, hate and elation. Last week a dominant emotion was bewilderment...
Only a few people straggled into the galleries to see the wind-up of the second longest session in U.S. history. Only a few Congressmen were on the floors of House & Senate, and those few were somber and bitter. It was the day word came that Manila had fallen. Texas' Tom Connally uttered Congress' stammering epitaph: "We are a peaceful people. We were not expecting a war, we were not prepared for war. ..." The gavels banged. The 77th Congress of the U.S. ended its first session...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...