Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington was as calm and unhurried as if neither had happened. The White House had announced its intention of letting labor and management sweat it out; few Congressmen even raised their voices on the subject of the Russian bomb...
...Clark Clifford and John Steelman got raises to $20,000; White House Secretaries Charles G. Ross, William D. Hassett and Matt Connelly to $18,000. The under secretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau heads and commissioners who run Washington's alphabetical beehive were raised to $15,000 -approximately the amount Congressmen and Senators voted themselves...
...equality might not last long. After thinking it over for a day or so, Congressmen were beginning to talk this week about raising their own pay again-this time to $25,000 a year...
...Navy has just spent a very busy week. Tuesday, last, it assemble a task group including two of its three remaining largest carriers and run them up and down off the Virginia Capes for the benefit of visiting congressmen and other important dignitaries. Ice cream was served, and official cameramen projected Warner Brother's new movie "Task Force...
...wide split opinion raised the possibility yesterday that Congress may delay until next year its final verdict on the handling of Atomic Energy Commission affairs. Congressmen last night forecasted such a wide senate-House division over a draft of the AEO investigation results that it will be impossible to arrive at a majority vote before congress quits...