Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week which fairly reflected the feelings of G.O.P. Congressmen-raw, grey and chilly-a handful of Republican Senators gathered in a Senate committee room. They met with the conviction that the Republican leadership which had dominated the 80th Congress was largely responsible for the party's defeat. The man they had their angry eyes on was Robert A. Taft...
Before the Accusers. For five hours Chambers testified as a stenographer took notes. When he had finished, the Congressmen jubilantly announced that Chambers had given them enough work to keep busy for six months. There was ample reason, they concluded, to continue the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 81st Congress (where it would be under Democratic control). To save it from further public criticism of its methods, Republicans Mundt and Nixon proposed a few changes in procedure "which may have justified some honest criticism...
...extent that certain industries did this, it was their own fault that Congressmen raised an outcry for an excess-profits tax even though the U.S. may end the current fiscal year with a budget surplus. Warned Wyoming's New Dealing Senator Joe O'Mahoney: "My theory is that any industry earning excess profits from full employment or Government spending should pay more taxes...
...Feathered Tom. The parade of White House callers included all sorts of men on all sorts of missions: labor leaders, turkey growers, Senators, foreign diplomats, politicians, old friends, ax-grinding congressmen, lobbying mayors and gift-bearing citizens. A delegation from Truman, Minnesota (which had voted against him, 267 to 241) dropped in to invite the President to attend the town's 50th anniversary...
Pearson also counts on the common failing of Congressmen: they can't help talking. "I often tell a friend or two to keep their ears open at a closed-door meeting," says Pearson. During the war, the Merry-Go-Round spilled the news that F.D.R. had irritably snubbed General de Gaulle. "One of the Congressmen who heard it took a few notes," Pearson recalls...