Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aims upon which the rival groups in the party had agreed were fourfold: to help keep the peace, to preserve New Deal social gains, to maintain academic freedom, and to exert pressure on Congressmen to adopt National Youth Administration scholarships...
...government is turning its eyes away from the European situation just long enough to give an ear to the sad state of network music this side of the Monroe Doctrine boundary line. Congressmen don't even need the help of Dr. Gallup to sense that Jeanie's light brown hair has turned gray in the last two months, and Old Black Joe has long been a member of the angelic choir. Just to make sure he stays there, the government has decided to start a criminal anti-trust suit against ASCAP, but those who think that this may mean tuneful...
There was no doubt that Wendell Willkie had been read out of an isolationist position he had never held. He was damned for not winning isolationist Republican Congressmen to his view, for thinking of politics as a personal crusade and a fight for ideas. Stubborn as ever, he shook off journalistic and political assaults as he had plowed through the boos and egg-throwing of the campaign. At the annual luncheon of the Women's National Republican Club he said his say on the problem of the party...
Meantime there was another source of information about the services, over which they had not yet devised any means of control: the Congress. Playing ball with Congress (e.g., giving out secret information to Congressmen to back up requests for appropriations) often lands naval secrets in the Congressional Record, to which any foreign agent can subscribe for $1.50 a month. Many a time the fullness of Navy information in the Record has been enough to give the Office of Naval Intelligence an acute attack of indigestion...
...continuation of crises in the world already has scrambled many of our old patterns of thought, and the American Legion's proposal for a permanent national conscription program for youths of 18 has drawn much sober comment from Congressmen, whereas only a year ago it probably would have been likened heatedly to the totalitarian programs of forced labor and universal conscription...