Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour the U.S., checking up on housing, agriculture, high prices. But at least half-a-dozen separate committees and subcommittees were heading for Europe, three for Alaska, three for the Pacific, one to Latin America. Before they all return to Washington next January, 100 or more Senators and Congressmen in dozens of committees and subcommittees will spend upwards of $2 million crisscrossing the U.S. and circling the globe...
...second time in 32 days, last week the President vetoed a tax-reduction bill which had been passed by an overwhelming majority of Congressmen...
...report came in a week when Congressmen were in a mood to act against anyone with the faintest Red tinge. President Truman had ordered full inquiries into the political loyalties of federal jobholders (TIME, March 31). He directed that loyalty boards be set up in each department. The President's plan provided some rights of defense and appeal...
Even veteran444 anti-Red Congressmen have been smirking uncontrollably at the rhetoric got off in recent House debates about examining federal employees' loyalty. Because for one thing, the deity complex called Atomic Security cannot be invoked as justification for the current bill. All employees in "sensitive" areas have been checked and surveyed till one wonders why they are allowed to mate, since their children may through some idealogical mutation prove subversive. And since the State, Army, and other security-involved departments are screened, then verified by the FBI, the main direct threats are already taken care...
...academic, of course, because few modern Communists publicize their affiliations. This evasion has provided a field day for the witch hunters, who now define a Communist as anyone who is friendly with anyone who is a Communist--who is in turn defined as a Communist because . . . and thus these Congressmen who often despise modern cultural movements begin to rival Gertrude Stein...