Word: congressmen
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...Administration and traders, who had thought support loans and exports would prop up prices, were worried. Irate farm-bloc Congressmen called in Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan to ask a Congressman's perennial question: Who's to blame? Brannan could do no better than trot out a familiar Administration devil: the speculator. He ordered the Chicago Board of Trade to dig up the names and employment of all buyers & sellers on the fateful Tuesday. Speculators must have been to blame, said Brannan, because he could not see any other reason for such a drastic shakeout...
With angry U.S. farmers breathing hotly on its neck, the Administration was desperately trying to find a way of dealing with the glut. Congressmen considered several bills providing for the Government to take over-or build-more storage space. Secretary Brannan mulled the possibility of listing wheat officially as surplus. That would force EGA, which recently approved the purchase of 140 million bushels of Canadian wheat for Britain at lower than U.S. prices, to buy all its grains at home. EGA could ship more grain to Europe, since it could now buy more with the funds allotted. The Department...
Discussing the topic "Congressional Investigations--How Can They be Improved?", the Forum brought two congressmen, a Washington reporter, and a New York attorney to offer their recommendations and their criticism...
...congressmen, a journalist, and a prominent, New York attorney will mull over the problem, "How Can We Improve Congressional Investigation?" when the Law School Forum swings into its spring term program at 8 p.m. in the Rindge Tech auditorium...
Though Representative Dondero didn't say so, there was an even simpler way than reading newspapers and gabbing to avoid listening to speeches in the House, That was to stay away. Only about 40 of the 435 Congressmen were on hand when Dondero spoke...