Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Civil War and the rise of the Republicans as an anti-slavery coalition, third parties have made much fuss, but to little effect. They have swung elections for others, have never been able to do much for themselves. They have elected Congressmen, a handful of Senators, but never a President...
Slivers & Martyrs. Other third parties have been more successful in nonpresidential years. The Greenback Party, which clamored for cheap money, elected 15 Congressmen in the off year of 1878, but could garner only 307,306 votes for its presidential candidate in 1880. The Populists of 1890, riding a storm of discontent among bankrupt farmers and laborers ("The makers of clothes are underfed; the makers of food are underclothed"), elected nine Representatives and four Senators, but could poll only 1,000,000 votes in 1892 for James B. Weaver...
...State Robert A. Lovett now feels that there is another pertinent way of telling the U.S. story. That, he said, would be the delivery by air to Europe of U.S. newspapers and magazines. In a letter to Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley (one of a number of Congressmen to broach the scheme), Lovett said that the department would ask Congress for funds to finance such a project...
...individual performances, Hope's is far and away the standout. He blows bubbles through a cornet. He even gets the mouthpiece stuck on his lips, which is certainly a new one from his bag of tricks. And when he pulls off a crack about Congressmen with all the finesse of a dinosaur laying an egg, he is really tops...
...least gained a greater measure of respect than they had enjoyed before. They had helped this feeling along by their own actions. They were presenting a different face to the peoples of the world from the inquisitive, patronizing face of the pre-World War II tourist. Most of the Congressmen who had traveled to Europe last summer for a look at things were conscientious and sympathetic men, who had shown Europe a more mature U.S., even as they reflected the spirit of hardheaded humanitarianism which was abroad in their land...