Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen, Cabinet members, aides paraded through his White House office. In striped pants and a black Homburg, and accompanied by Bess and Margaret, he piled into the presidential limousine and rode up to Capitol Hill to read his State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress...
...listened to plans for Inauguration Day (Jan. 20): the committee expected 750,000 visitors, 30 floats. He rode up to the Hill for a birthday luncheon for Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Speaker's dining room, flabbergasted Congressmen by popping into the House chamber for the last dull rites of that archaic ceremony -counting the electoral votes. Cracked he, as he left: "It looks like I'm ahead...
Late in 1948 a deputation of independent Congressmen called upon General Odria to convoke a special session of Peru's Congress, which has not functioned effectively since July 1947. Last week they got their answer-in Odria's budget for 1949. Its appropriation for the armed forces: 242 million soles ($16 million). For Congressmen's salaries: not a solitary sol. At week's end, Odria's junta announced that it was assuming all executive and legislative powers...
...weeks ago Waltham laid off its 2,300 workers. Last week, Waltham appealed to the RFC for a $9,000,000 loan. Pressed by Massachusetts Congressmen, RFC loaned $350,000, with a promise of $650,000 more if the banks agreed. This first transfusion was only enough to reopen Waltham for a few weeks-and with a skeleton force. But President Johnson hoped that there would be more forthcoming, and that he could get Waltham ticking again...
...most active education lobby is the National Education Association, which speaks for hundreds of thousands of school teachers--teachers who view the national government as their last best hope for badly-needed salary boosts--and puts a considerable pressure on Congressmen...