Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress came back to Washington last week. House members had been home for a month; most Senators for at least a fortnight. Scores of reporters were assigned to talk to returning Congressmen, to report what they had found among the folks back home...
...Certain Congressmen came to the conclusion last week that something had to be done about the great...
President William Green's federation is infested with racketeers, as C.I.O. is plagued with Reds. Since A.F. of L. leaders seem little inclined to do anything about it, Congressmen, following the lead of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold (TIME, Sept. 8), got ready to move...
...Denver poll promises to lay emphasis on research on polling methods, a thing which is the urgent concern of all reliable pollsters. It also intends to take polls, at cost, for legislators and U.S. Congressmen who may want to know what their own constituents think about specific issues, for Government departments, for educators, for non-profit organizations. Sample poll under consideration: what do Denverites think of the controversial syst em of Progressive education in their public schools...
Died. Edward Thomas Taylor, 83, oldest member of the House of Representatives ; in Denver. Chairman of the Appropriations Committee since 1937, he was in his 17th consecutive term-one of only five Congressmen in U.S. history to be re-elected 16 successive times...