Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held in Washington last month, 59 Nebraska editors and publishers reported that their communities were now overwhelmingly in favor of the Administration's foreign policy, substantially in favor of Neutrality Act repeal. Said one editor: "The so-called 'Isolationist Midwest' exists only in the minds of Congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent months...
...Wagner and hamburger steak were bad for "morale." If draftees kick about their lack of recreational opportunities, then "morale" is bad. Reading the wrong magazines, jitterbugging on a dance floor, or playing baseball of Sunday are equally harmful to "morale." And there is no lack of United States Congressmen to proclaim that union-organization and the right to strike are ruining the nation's "morale...
...centered. General Wood's blunt words did not leave enough room for U.S. reactions to such Nazi blows as the killing of hostages, the speed and power of the Nazi conquests. The solemn words of President Roosevelt did not take in enough of the practical, blundering world of Congressmen, isolationists, and people who look with abhorrence on fighting...
These three sinkings came at a crucial time in Congress' soul-searchings about Neutrality. Some Congressmen must have heard a kind of eloquence in the statement of an American boy, whose life had been saved after his ship, the Lehigh, was sunk: "Say, Roosevelt calls the Jerries pirates -well, we got a name for them...
...flaxseed, canned corned beef (fresh beef is still excluded), cattle hides and a new set of products formerly imported from Europe (wines, cheeses, anchovies, etc.). The 50% cut on canned-beef tariff (from 6? to 3? per Ib.) aroused the usual speaking-for-the-record opposition by beef-State Congressmen, but it meant little. Said J. Taylor, president of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association...