Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strictly speaking (an unusual habit for Vag), he had been an auditor for the past four years. He had taken a few notes, clipped some campaign speeches and studded his lapel with a button or two. But he had written no Congressmen, signed no petitions. For the most part, he had only sat and listened, a government auditor with his ear miles off the ground...
...convention in Atlantic City last week, startled hardwaremen wondered if they were hearing aright. He addressed them as "fellow law-violators" and told them they were all probably violating the Supreme Court decision which FTC had won against basing points (TIME, July 19). He urged them to write their Congressmen to nullify the decision and ridiculed the FTC's enforcement of it by reciting a jingle...
Obviously, it required exact and uniform standards of measurement. Lack of standard measurements messed up the trade between the American colonies; though the U.S. Constitution directed Congress to fix the standards of weights & measures, Congress did nothing about it for 80 years. Congressmen were passionately interested in the subject, but they could not agree. Repeatedly Washington begged Congress to pass a standardization law; in 1795 he suggested that the U.S. adopt the new French metric system. Jefferson thought he had a better idea: he wanted a system based on the length of a uniform cylindrical pendulum which...
Last summer the weakened Voice was nearly stilled altogether when outraged Congressmen discovered that an NBC scriptwriter had been wisecracking about their home states (e.g., "New England was founded by hypocrisy, and Texas . . . by sin"). When the smoke cleared away, NBC and CBS had canceled their Government contracts. The Voice got a new appropriation of nearly $12 million and was made one of the chores of able Career Diplomat George Allen, new Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs...
...usually worthless trying to interpret an audience's reactions and using that interpretation as a criterion by which to judge the play. But last night, when roars of laughter greeted each stupid blunder made by the generals and the visiting congressmen, it leaves some doubt as to whether Mr. Haines has succeeded in making his point. Stupidity is laughable in chimney-sweeps and char-women, but it becomes something else when found among men with the whip in their hands...