Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this evening to climax a hasty but determined movement to influence Congressional action on the European Recovery Program. In a remarkably short time, the "Save ERP" campaign has spread to 35 colleges and universities in New England. Local committees have hustled out hundreds of letters, petitions, and telegrams to Congressmen, and in at least 20 of those schools, rallies similar to tonight's are planned...
...aspects of Marshall's proposals will not necessarily be jolted into line by news of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia or the ominous pressure put on Finland by the Soviets. One of the "Save ERP" Committee's points "reconstruction not relief"--is still in decided danger from such influential Congressmen as Senators Taft and Ball, who want to slice the program drastically, for reasons of "economy." If this ill-advised scissoring succeeds in turning the recovery program into a parsimonious dole for Europe's needy, then Mr. George Weller, whose letter appears elsewhere on this page, may be right. Such...
...Many Congressmen were out politicking. Before they left Washington, they had reached a tacit gentleman's agreement that not much serious work would be done in Congress while they were gone. The little that did get done was right in line with the election-year emphasis on economy and tax cuts...
Hamtramck (pronounced ham-tram-mick) is a Polish factory community entirely encircled by Detroit and submerged by politics. Hamtramck's manners are Old World; but its morals have produced more political scandals than any city in Michigan. Mayors have become convicts; ex-convicts have become Congressmen. Once Hamtramck boasted a model school system which some optimists thought might save the place...
Stanley A. Karson '49, chairman of the AVC here, John A. Quisenbery '46 and William H. Cook '40 left Cambridge yesterday for the National Veterans Housing Conference in the Capital, where they will confer with Congressmen and Senators in an effort to get the proposed legislation out of the House committee which now has it under consideration...