Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timider Alternative. Congressmen, sensitive to the slightest possible future bruise on the electorate's good will, began to get chills and fever. Further, most of them are middle-incomers themselves; the extra tax would cut into their savings for reelection expenses. So the bill threatened their jobs in two ways...
...there was still one big indigestible truth which neither Mr. Morgenthau nor the Congressmen were ready to chew: the fact that the Government, while ready to ask citizens for sacrifices, was not yet ready to make any sacrifices of its own. The budget of many a department for 1942 had been ostentatiously pared -about as deeply as a man is apt to pare his fingernails. Although labor shortages have begun to appear in many an industry, the Administration had made no commitments to reduce relief expenditures, is still spending for relief at the rate of about...
...Twelve Congressmen told Republican Leader Joe Martin that peace sentiment was stronger in their districts than at any time during the past year...
Beating around and through the bush of recent labor-management scuffles, critics had flushed out a scapenannygoat, the Labor Secretary. Congressmen bayed on her trail. Washington wags cracked: the only reason she still holds office is that the President is too much of a gentleman to ask a lady for her seat...
...like to keep ourselves to ourselves." Instead of answering questions, she lectured. Labor was antagonistic from the start. A.F. of L. President William Green, angry because Roosevelt had not appointed A.F. of L. Wheel Horse Dan Tobin to the job, huffed: "Labor will never be reconciled to her appointment." Congressmen did not like her or her social worker's ways...