Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blonde vision. There they found Mr. Rockefeller ready to listen to any scheme to promote good-neighborly relations. Outside the office Mr. Rockefeller astonished official Washington by his ability to pop in & out of a dozen committee meetings a day, to write innumerable memorandums, to argue lengthily with Congressmen, to send all over Latin America young men who astonished the natives with their apparent naïvete. The State Department, which cherished the professional's distaste for the amateur and had not been consulted about the Committee's creation, developed toward it an attitude of chilly reserve...
Presently, after passing two appropriation bills that included record non-defense expenditures, Congressmen appealed to Mr. Morgenthau to be specific...
Month ago Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. dazed the House Ways & Means Committee by recommending that non-defense expenditures be cut; that $1,000,000,000 could be saved by cutting down farm, NYA and CCC appropriations. Stunned by the sound of a New Dealer recommending economy, Congressmen feebly toyed with this brandnew idea...
...they would receive 85% parity loans, plus parity payments, plus soil-conservation payments in cash. He did stipulate, as his understanding of the bill's "obscurity," that "under no circumstances should the sum of these three exceed parity." No matter what the President might now say or do, Congressmen had received a clear direction: the lid was off. Anything goes. Franklin Roosevelt had intoned the benediction over economy's grave...
...Congressmen, the President, the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations and kibitzers in his office generally have a hand in choosing subordinate commanders for duty with the fleets...