Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations to TIME for the excellent report on the present and future position of our military might [TIME, June 23]. Let's hope this article will help to bring some of our reactionary Congressmen out of their shells and help them to see the light...
...year. A week after the Congress approved the bill for the rest of the nation, the House had quietly voted to extend the D.C. law, without change, until March 1948. The bill contained no 15% increase for landlords, no permission to raise the rents of permanent hotel guests. Many Congressmen live in hotels...
...printed, and the one the Sun and other papers did draw, is that the Atomic Energy Commission is unfitted for the job with which it is entrusted. Facts brought out in the sequel rather completely vindicate the AEC at the expense of the Army and corroborate the judgement of Congressmen who placed atomic energy in the hands of civilians. Yet the same group that fought the Atomic Energy Commission and the confirmation of its chairman, David E. Lilienthal, is still trying to put the atom back in the protective custody of the military...
Next day the delegates, in red, white & blue Townsend hats and Townsend ribbons, scattered to see the city. They called on their Congressmen and visited with one another. Rollie Walters, 97-year-old Civil War veteran, who wore his uniform, bore tomahawk scars, and once worked in a false-tooth factory, hauled out his lower plate to show the folks. "Made these myself," he said...
...Navy said last week it does not have enough oil for an "emergency." Some Congressmen raised a hullabaloo over exports of oil to Russia, but these were a negligible factor. The services are short of oil chiefly because the oil companies: 1) get a better price from motorists than from bulk sales to the Government, and 2) are in a competitive "brand name" fight for the U.S. market. To eke out its supply, the Navy plans to import an extra 3,400,000 bbl. from the Persian Gulf...