Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where To Go? Any foreign attaché looking at the new U. S. Army this spring will recognize it for what it is: a standing expeditionary force, designed for prompt, conscript expansion into an expeditionary Army of 750,000 active troops, 250,000 reserves. When Congressmen, scared by World War II, scream for underground bombing shelters in the interior U. S., for permanent anti-aircraft installations at Kansas City and points west, the General Staff in Washington shudders. Remembering that the U. S. Army has fought in China, Siberia, Central America, France, the General Staff has planned an outfit ready...
...Congressional custom for Congressmen to oppose every tax bill and vote for every appropriation bill, all the while beating their breasts for economy in government. Last week the U. S. Treasury faced a legal limit to its spending, and Senate debate ran true to form...
After three-months of silence the American Independence League swung into action yesterday with a vigorous protest to "several Massachusetts Congressmen" against U. S. Ambassador James Cromwell's speech in Canada criticizing American neutrality...
Marines or constables, it seemed clear that the U. S. mail had been hijacked by Britishers. Congressmen were hopping...
...President Theodore, sat by. The delegates (here a pretty girl who could afford a fox collar, there an unemployed Italian in a sweater, Negroes next to white friends, students, sharecroppers, a few "youths" with bald or greying heads) were dog-tired. All day they had seen sights, visited Congressmen, argued, walked up & down with rhyming placards: "Heed the Voice of 21,000,000: Keep the C. C. C. Civilian!" "Scholarships not Battleships!" "Dies is FLIP-PITY about Civil LIBERTY...