Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Representatives' special "show-me" committee arrived last week in London. Seventeen Congressmen, plus ten consultants and two secretaries-all under the supervision of Massachusetts' stern and thoughtful Christian Herter-were there to see for themselves how badly off Europe was, and how much help England and the Continent needed...
...times greater than imports, that the rest of the world is running short of dollars with which to buy U.S. goods, that this "may well cause a serious recession in the U.S. economy." He hoped that his "Peso Pay-Off Day" would impress upon Janesville that "your Congressmen and Senators can go a long way toward averting this danger by reducing [import] barriers...
...fight a bitter-end battle. Phil Murray put his signature to a 41-page document listing legal loopholes for C.I.O. lawyers to crawl through. Old Bill Green announced that the A.F.L. was planning a national work stoppage on Election Day in 1948, to get out the vote against the Congressmen who had voted for the Taft-Hartley bill...
...national guardsmen to keep a watch as Bilbo, resplendent in the red tie and diamond stickpin which had been his campaign badge, lay in state at the Dream House. The U.S. Senate will pay for his funeral. Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, Senator James 0. Eastland, five Congressmen, scores of state officials, crowded into the Juniper Grove Baptist Church (built with Bilbo's donations) to attend the services. Five thousand humbler folk stood outside in the churchyard and listened to the services via loudspeakers...
...come. Britain's request to discuss certain aspects of the recent loan, the admitted inability of the Security Council to resolve the Balkan squabbles, the Russian penchant for hiding behind her veto--all are ideal ammunition for those who desire to belittle the benefits of international cooperation. Some Congressmen and editorialists are already saying they--"knew all along" that the United States should stay out of other peoples business...