Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lawyers, who know all the ins-&-outs of legal obfuscation. Some members of the committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet point and those who are rubber stamps for union politicians...
...Dies Committee has been out to get him or his staff. Last week the committee had obtained a list of all his employes, 40 of whom (its agents contend) have written for Communist publications. These and other alleged links with Moscow will be fashioned into needles for some Congressmen to use against price controls...
From at least one business source came evidence that some businessmen are more concerned with the danger of inflation than with any past quarrels with Leon. Editorialized the American Metal Markets: "For the edification of those Congressmen who are enjoying their verbal tilts with Leon Henderson, it might not be amiss to present a picture of the No. 1 defense industry-steel-suffering from lack of raw material because committeemen delay . .. price authority and suitable penalties. . . . It may be that Mr. Henderson is not temperamentally the best man . . . but his honesty, patriotism and ruggedness are beyond question. . . . Price chaos...
...assistance of a vast American expeditionary force." When the President read that report he hit the ceiling. Steve Early, in no playful humor, called Senator Barkley, Representative Sol Bloom, other leaders in whom Roosevelt had confided, and accused them of misrepresenting the President's remarks. Hopping mad, the Congressmen elected Senator Barkley to go after Correspondent Manly...
...Once Henderson finished, questions and fun began. Although the bill permitted farm prices to go to 110% of parity, farm-bloc Congressmen wanted the figure raised to 120%. Because it provided for no wage controls, right-wing Congressmen thought they saw a New Deal plot to squeeze manufacturers. Republicans and conservative Democrats alike objected to putting control in Leon's New Dealish hands, wanted to create instead a five-man board...