Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of the curve crouched little Sol Bloom, chairman, looking like a Neanderthal man dressed up in clothes. Facing him were small tables and chairs-for witnesses and their staffs. In the well squatted photographers, fidgeting with flash bulbs. Sitting in every seat, almost as visibly present as the Congressmen, spectators, Capitol policemen, messengers, newsreel cameramen, were tensions, anxieties, fears, great expectations. The bill before the committee, the Lend-Lease bill, H.R. 1776, had brought all these emotions to a focus. It was possible, if these emotions focused strongly enough, that they might set fire to something-even...
Among the Congressmen around the horseshoe were three Republican isolationists: Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell, Mass., 59, fluttery, saccharine, gushing, with orchids and iron-grey curls; Hamilton Fish of Garrison, N. Y., 52, rangy, headline-hungry, with a brazen voice and a longtime suspicion of England; George Holden Tinkham of Boston, Mass., 70, bald, potbellied, with jowl-whiskers like a Russian droshky driver. Mr. Fish, veteran of many a skirmish with old Mr. Hull, and knowing that the Secretary's innocent, suffering face masks a hot-pincers talent of repartee, gave up the witness swiftly, but prodded furious...
Crossed Lines. Ideally the rearmament program should be progressing in three neat parallel lines of administration, management, labor. But last week the lines were wavering, crossing, occasionally colliding head on. Congressmen raised longer and louder cries for legislation outlawing strikes in defense industries. The President himself had said: "The nation expects our defense industries to continue operation without interruption by strikes or lockouts." Among the crossed-up lines last week...
Convinced that the bill can be defeated, the Student Union called on students to demonstrate their opposition by "passing resolutions in their clubs, organizotions, dormitories and classrooms. Write letters to your Congressmen and to your President...
...Bolivian Foreign Minister Eduardo Diez de Medina squirmed uncomfortably on his bench in the La Paz Chamber of Deputies one day last week. From the packed galleries above him angry Bolivian spectators hissed & booed, kept up a steady chant of "Down with the Jews! Death to the Jews!" Jingoistic Congressmen waggled their fingers under his nose, made long speeches about national honor. Then, with deliberate gait, gumshoeing Deputy Jordan Velasco strode forward, lifted his eyes to the balconies, bellowed out: "I am proud of being an accuser. And, without wishing to compare myself with Zola, I accuse." Defendant Diez...