Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, most of the saving would have to come from subsidies to farmers, youth and relief. Congressmen would as soon vote against these projects as they would vote against home and mother, the Stars & Stripes, or the Ten Commandments...
...Presidential power over private property is not as complete as he has asked for. Dictator-fearing Congressmen limited it so that...
...there were still a few things he kept to himself. According to a Federal grand jury charge, he had failed to relate, for instance, that he had supplied Congressmen with material for speeches so that he might get his propaganda into the Congressional Record and sent around the country under Congressional frank. He had failed to tell that he had provided material for a book published under the authorship of Illinois Congressman Stephen A. Day, or that he had aided and financed the "non-interventionist" Islands-for-War-Debts-Committee. For these and other oversights, last week Viereck was indicted...
...office as headquarters for a lobby against the impending Neutrality amendments. (The last private citizen who invaded a Congressional office to bore at legislation from within was John L. Lewis: he moved into Speaker Bankhead's office during a fight on amendments on the Walsh-Healey Act. When Congressmen found out about it, they raised the roof. If anyone has tried it since, he has kept it dark.) First plan had been to hold a big lunch in the House restaurant. But most isolationist Congressmen who were invited preferred a free tour of Fort Belvoir, Va., where the Army...
...Washington this week, Congressmen hauled out the old Neutrality Act, prepared to rewrite the sections keeping U.S. merchantmen out of the war zones (see p. 77). If these provisions become law, U.S. overseas shippers will 1) get more cargoes at still higher rates, 2) have their ships completely armed and convoyed at Government expense. They will also have to make slower (because convoyed) trips. But with new Maritime Commission ships becoming available to them at the rate of about one a day in 1942, overseas ship operators should still make plenty of money...