Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South America. In 1939 the Navy got a bid of 9.?7 a Ib. (not counting tariff) against a low bid of 23.6/ for U. S. tinned beef. Yet when President Roosevelt proposed that the Navy accept the Argentine bid (at a saving of $6,672), sectionally-minded Congressmen like Scrugham tied his hands...
...hearing (TIME, May 20). On that day, as on many a day before and since, earnest, thrift-minded John Taber was snorting his wrath at Franklin Roosevelt, whom he always denounced as the wrong man to trust with a taxpayer's dollar. One day last week Republican Congressmen burst out of a party caucus as if they had seen a ghost, blurted to reporters: "John Taber's in there making a speech for Roosevelt." Mr. Taber calmly confirmed the rumor, furthermore gave notice that he didn't want any unnecessary strings tied...
With Economizer Taber talking thus, only 55 Congressmen mustered nerve to vote against the appropriation, second biggest in all U. S. history (336 voted for the bill). The Senate folded up, too, passing the bill in jigtime, 67-to-9. On the subject of aid to Britain, there were no party lines left in Congress...
...President's new National Defense Mediation Board (see p. 14). General Hershey proposed to narrow draft registration limits (now 21-35), conscript only men between 18 and 23. He would also let the trainees in the new age brackets choose the year when they would serve. Many Congressmen would like to correct the law now. But General Hershey would put off making any changes until the U. S. is ready to settle down to regular, permanent conscription in annual classes. Meantime he would rock along with the existing act until the Army has accumulated a reserve of trained conscripts...
...America's Town Meeting of the Air, University of Chicago Round Table, MBS's American Forum of the Air. Oldest of these is the American Forum, which from small beginnings in 1928 has progressed until today it is a favorite aerial stamping ground for U. S. Congressmen...