Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen who are "conditioned" with the exploded idea that neutral and isolated nations are safe, seem to have the cerebral cells in their thinking organ blacked out. These men seize upon Rear Admiral Land's statement that only eight ships were "reported" to be lost that sailed from American ports, distort the true significance of the words and argue that there is no need to requisition ships for aid to Britain...
...only Congressmen but labor's advocates last week denounced the San Francisco shipyard strike (TIME, May 19). When even Madam Perkins held up her hands in horror, it became 1941's most unpopular walkout...
...Treasury nad recommended new and higher surtaxes on personal and corporate incomes (TIME, May 5), higher gift and estate taxes, increased excises on many such commodities as cigarets, liquor, gasoline. On the last point Messrs. Eccles and Henderson plainly told openmouthed Congressmen on the Ways and Means Committee that they differed...
...Geyser Anti-Poll Tax bill, lies buried in the House judiciary committee, and will not be proposed for consideration before the House. The principal objective of National Anti-Poll Tax Week is to blast this bill out of the committee by getting two hundred and eighteen signatures of congressmen on a discharge petition, the number of signatures necessary to bring the bill before the House. If the campaign is successful, and the "right to vote" becomes more than an idle phrase to ten million southern citizens, we can then perhaps do a little more constructive thinking about making the rest...
American Defense, Harvard Group, urged yesterday all Faculty members to show their support of the President's policy on naval affairs by writing or telegraphing their Congressmen and local newspapers...