Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manpower, Secretary Forrestal had first proposed both U.M.T. and Selective Service. Most Congressmen shied away from U.M.T., and it was considered dead. Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee proposed a six-month U.M.T. program combined with the regular training program to cut down the need for instructors...
Private Life. In Washington he lives at the quiet, dignified Hay-Adams House, across Lafayette Square from the White House. He rises at 7, eats breakfast in the House restaurant because he likes the toast and can talk to fellow Congressmen, lunches either in the House restaurant or cloakroom (sandwich and pie), dines at the Hay-Adams...
...Roosevelt made him the target of personal attack when, charging the Republicans with being obstructionists and bracketing Martin with New York's anti-New Deal Congressmen Bruce Barton and Hamilton Fish, F.D.R. sneered: "That great historic trio . . . Martin, Barton and Fish." Joe Martin summed up his own political philosophy four years later. There is a war in the U.S., he said, between the idea of a free society and the idea of a regimented and planned society; the second conception lives upon "vast streams of Government debt," takes its shape from "a bureaucratic elite under the command...
...continued his friendly but rigid discipline. Under his leadership, the House, which is the true voice of the people in government, buckled down to the passage of constructive legislation. He approved the European trip of the Herter Committee; this helped to pass ERP on the basis of Congressmen's independent knowledge of the European crisis. He was also largely responsible for inclusion of aid-to-China in the ERP package. In domestic affairs, he ran the tax-reduction bill through the House; held up U.M.T.; pushed and prodded for a larger Air Force; had a hand in all Republican...
Some of the gentlemen on Capitol Hill are working themselves into a righteous furor this week about the Bogota rebellion. Why, demand the Congressmen, did not the Central Intelligence Agency, which is supposed to know what is going on everywhere in the world, know about the plots in Bogota? If the CIA did know what was going on, why wasn't the State Department informed in time? For the umpteenth time, the United States has been put into a foolish position for lack of proper intelligence work, and the Congressmen, as representatives of public opinion, are howling for investigations...