Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both major defects would be almost completely corrected by the Lodge Plan. But it will take years of plugging and popularizing before the Plan is passed. Determined opposition has already appeared from two sides. Many persons, including influential Congressmen, think Lodge doesn't go far enough. They urge a direct popular election, claiming that under both the present system and the Lodge Plan, the states' electoral votes are not proportional to population. (Nevada, for instance, has one-sixteenth the electoral vote of New York, but only one one-hundred-and-thirtieth of the population of New York. This is because...
...youngest in the U.S., Hummon used the opportunity to shout out the first rebel yell at Harry Truman since the election. "I am proud to say," rasped Hummon, "that [my] administration will throw the full force of your state's governmental machinery behind our Senators and Congressmen in their fight against any anti-Southern measures that may be brought before the next session of Congress...
...81st Congress will have 54 Senators and 224 Representatives (a majority in both houses) who voted for Taft-Hartley. Administration officials, however, expect some changes of heart. A total of 121 Senators and Congressmen who voted for Taft-Hartley were either beaten in the primaries, retired, died or were eliminated on Election...
...Republican district of western Pennsylvania. With little money or organization, but with labor's help in ringing doorbells, curly-haired Bob Coffey, a veteran of 97 fighter combat flights in Europe, strafed five-term Congressman Harve Tibbott's isolationist record. Coffey is one of eleven new Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylvania ; President Truman had campaigned in all but one of their districts...
...journalist and educator expressed optimism over the fact that 49 newly-elected Congressmen have supported the strengthening of the United Nations into a more powerful body. Among these he mentioned Johnson of Texas, Humphreys of Minnesota, Douglas of Illinois, and Miller of Idaho...