Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised. Week before, a hasty rewrite of the World War excess-profits tax, passed by the Senate, had been killed in conference committee under Administration pressure (TIME, July 1). The conferees had asked the Treasury for its idea of a good excess-profits bill by Oct. 1, and few Congressmen expected to have to face the problem until then. Suddenly, the same day that their tax leaders (Senator Harrison, Representatives Doughton and Cooper) were invited to the Treasury to talk excess profits, the President uttered his 85 words. Congressmen wondered what had made him change his mind...
...Dealer and a Democrat. If there's one thing I have done it's fight the New Deal. Why, some of these other fellows who call themselves Republicans were selling off the regalia while I was defending the lodge." To a statement from 40 Republican Congressmen which hinted that he was "unavailable" because he was a neophyte Republican, onetime Democrat Willkie retorted in a favorite phrase: "That's a lot of spinach." He had made no commitments,. he was making none. How did he expect to be nominated then? Barked Mr. Willkie cockily...
There was little talk, pro or con, about help for the Allies. There weren't Allies any more, there was only Britain, and Congressmen gradually awoke to the fact that to intervene or not to intervene? was not a realistic question. They began to have a feeling in the pits of their stomachs that by the time the U. S. was called upon to fight, there weren't likely to be any Allies for it to fight beside. Passed by both houses was a resolution denying the right of any European state to transfer its territory...
...double the patrols along the Canadian and Mexican borders, Congress appropriated $1,600,000. Scared of everything to do with war, several Congressmen denounced Mr. Roosevelt's approval of the sale of new Navy "mosquito boats" to Great Britain, his Cabinet appointments of Stimson and Knox, both known to be somewhat more than pro-Ally...
Last winter engineers had warned Congressmen that the Capitol roof badly needed repairs. Month ago, during a rainstorm while the House was in session, water pattered down on Speaker Bankhead's desk. To a deficiency bill, also passed at week's end in the closing session, the House added $585,000-to insulate itself against the weather...