Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and his Lady do it. So do Congressmen, generals, labor, and everybody else. We're all using the wrong word...
Even the compromised bill was too much for the House. Lined up against the committee's bill was a queer, potent alliance: the farm bloc, Republicans who still smarted under their defeats on LendLease and Neutrality Act revision, Congressmen who distrusted the New Deal, Congressmen who distrusted Leon Henderson, Congressmen who distrusted price control...
Reddest were the faces of two Congressmen, E. C. ("Took") Gathings of West Memphis, Ark. and Cliff Davis of Memphis who, as a House Military Affairs subcommittee, two months ago had whitewashed the project ("There seemed to be nothing much that we could criticize...
...might have started winging the Atlantic a year ago had it not been for the relentless opposition of PanAmerican Airways and the desire of some Congressmen to "economize " Am Ex will still have rough flying. If the maximum load of 40 passengers pays $525 each, a one-way trip will bring in $21,000, actually $600 less than Pan Am gets for toting just mail on two of its three weeklyflights (mail pay for the third flight: $13,800). Thus Pan Am revenuesstart where...
...last week, it had become pretty plain that snobbery was not the word. The Government likewise puzzled over "The Strangers," particularly, it seemed, over the Commentator-Herald master mailing list, now said to comprise 500,000 names. Most of its names were supposedly supplied by isolationist Congressmen Wheeler, Nye, Fish, by Lindbergh and Father Coughlin, by America First and "other organizations." After big isolationist meetings the speakers are reported to have baled up tens of thousands of fan letters and sent them along to Scribner's Commentator and The Herald. There is nothing suspicious in having a mailing list...