Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reluctantly, to grant at least a part of the President's requests for European aid. But the outlook for favorable action on Mr. Truman's proposal for measures to stop inflation at home is dark indeed. Although the President actually gave "inflation curbs" top listing on his agenda, several Congressmen have declared their intent to introduce tax reduction measures as soon as Congress assembles. It is generally conceded that any overall tax reduction would release more money to be spent in an already inflated market, and thus give prices another boost...
Senator Robert A. Taft thinks that if Congressmen look a little silly during "investigations" such as the current one concerning Hollywood's subversives it is only because "a bunch of Communists out for trouble can make anyone look undignified...
...that Brazil's new democracy was getting nowhere in fighting the smooth hamstringing of organized Communism. He now hopes that strong public opinion, backing his break with Russia, will make Communism unpopular, that Congress will disenfranchise those Communists who still hold public office (e.g., one senator and 16 congressmen...
...Congressmen ought to know something about history. If they could be familiarized with the past, declared Marshall, "about three-fourths of the speeches would be eliminated. . . . They would know these speeches had already been said...
...Communists had been elected. But this was no coup d'etat. The fact that a Fascist or semi-Fascist party won in a free election makes the situation that much more dangerous. It reveals a rapidly increasing despair of American aid materializing into anything more than hot air. While Congressmen investigate and Speaker Martin announces that there is no danger of starvation, U.S. business counts its dollars, the termites of Fascism and Communism eat into the crumbling remains of European freedom. The price we may have to pay for our sloth and half-hearted ness will make the billions spent...