Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgaria last week, three visiting U.S. Congressmen, Senator Carl Hatch, Democrat, and Representatives John Davis Lodge and Walter H. Judd, Republicans, decided to perform a simple act of reverence that would dramatically assert the traditions of Western civilization...
Meddlers Beware. Politicians and chair-warmers who tried to fight blunt Dr. Hawley came out second best. Angered by pork-hungry Congressmen who wanted V.A. hospitals in out-of-the-way places, Hawley cracked: "I recommend that we build hospitals like they do hog houses in Indiana-on skids. Then they could be hauled around from one congressional district to another just before election...
...thing, it was too optimistic. That was partly the State Department's own doing. State had advised the conferees not to make their situation seem too bad; if they did, U.S. Congressmen would be resentful...
...Congress, which would have to supply the funds. Congress did not want to pour out billions for the Marshall Plan unless it was reasonably convinced that the plan would work; but neither did it want to see Communism spread to the shores of the Atlantic. Last week, scores of Congressmen were poking into the corners of Europe. Some, like South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt and Alabama's Pete Jarman, penetrated the Soviet sector of Berlin, where they could see the problem personified...
...notes of it all. Speaker Martin, who might pop up as a compromise candidate in case of a complete deadlock at the Republican presidential convention, also announced that he too, like Tom Dewey and Bob Taft, would take a trip through the West. Who had suggested the tour? Some Congressmen. Any political significance? None, said poker-faced Joe Martin...