Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their preholiday scramble to dispose of weightier matters, Congressmen did not forget the old custom of giving a year's salary to the heirs of a deceased member -even though this time he was Mississippi's ill-famed Senator Theodore G. Bilbo. In the bill providing $540 million for interim aid to Europe and China, they appropriated $12,500 to be divided equally between Bilbo's son, Lieut. Colonel Theodore G. Bilbo, A.U.S., and his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Forrest Bilbo Smith, of Poplarville, Miss...
...more a figure than an intimately known personality -a homely, reassuring man with compressed, unsmiling lips and deep-set, searching eyes, a man who was curiously unimpassioned and unimpressive when heard on the radio. As Chief of Staff of the Army, he had established a reputation for brilliance. Congressmen and others who dealt with him in Washington also knew him as a man of stubborn, unswerving honesty-a good man. His countrymen generally knew him as admirable and let it go at that...
...most Congressmen knew, Agriculture Secretary Clinton B. Anderson is empowered by law (the Commodity Exchange Act) to keep an up-to-date list of trades and traders. The Republicans were sure that such a list would reveal the names of other important Democrats. They also knew, of course, that the list would contain the names of some important Republicans. But the committee could choose which big names to put under its investigative spotlight and which to keep in the background. They asked Anderson to produce the list...
...Congressmen could not go home for Christmas with easy minds. Before they left Washington, they would get Harry Truman's message on the long-range European Recovery Program. That would need much mulling over. In the new year, it would generate long and bitter debate...
...most Congressmen could at least go home feeling well satisfied with the fruits of their extra-session labors. They had made a jerky start toward tackling the fractious problem of U.S. inflation (see The Nation). Most important of all, they had completed the emergency task of providing U.S. dollars to fight hunger, cold and Communism abroad...