Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leech is pretty bitter about my picturing a few Congressmen as crooks and undesirables. Now I didn't make this stuff up. . . . Mr. Leech's own paper informed me that, within [recent] months, two U.S. Congressmen have been declared officially crooked...
...evidence for this attitude came mostly from U.S. Congressmen, whose political lives depend on their appraisal of the sentiment back home. Since the end of the session, Congressmen had been touring Europe in droves. They went to have a look for themselves and to determine exactly what was required of the U.S. They did not go as busybodies, as they frequently had during the war, or as fat-cat junketeers. They were serious men who wanted to do the right thing...
...have the whole misery of the people to trade on. The European Governments are mostly made up of men who are old and tired and haven't the drive and determination of the Communists." One of the most cunning and toughest of Europe's Reds, according to Congressmen: Italy's Togliatti...
Europeans were also filled with misconceptions of U.S. intentions. They looked upon the U.S. as a horn of plenty with the big end pointing in their direction. In Austria and Germany, startled Congressmen ran into posters which implied that the U.S. had already committed itself to the Marshall Plan, and that all Europe had to do was line up with its hand out. Many of the posters, said the Congressmen, were put out through U.S. military government sources. Many Europeans also seemed to believe that the Marshall Plan, with its program of exports, was something devised to save...
Today, the Oilman Country School occupies a 69-acre campus in suburban Baltimore, teaches 400 students. Only about 50 boys, mostly the sons of Senators and Congressmen, board in. Headmaster Henry H. Callard thinks that the main advantage of a country day school is its kinship with its community: since most of the kids go home to dinner, they never lose touch with the world of grownups, as boys are apt to do at boarding schools. But he has a right to be proud for another reason. After 50 years, the Oilman Country School is still the best secondary school...