Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman Kunkel did not let them down. After they had sung more songs, with lyrics written right in Dauphin County, the ladies discovered that he had brought in all sorts of Congressmen and Senators, several of whom even made speeches. Cried Congressman John Jennings of Tennessee: "This is the most beautiful audience I have ever addressed in my life, and I hope you all live forever." When Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Ed Martin showed up, the ladies sang some more...
...chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has a standard routine for appropriations committees. First, he swears members to secrecy. Then he tells them what his FBI is doing to keep such things as crime and the menace of U.S. Communism in check. The Congressmen are flattered at being taken into Hoover's confidence, impressed by the magnitude of his job and the efficiency of the FBI. For fiscal 1948, Hoover wanted $35 million. He got every nickel of it. Thanks largely to Hoover, the entire Justice budget was trimmed a mere $3 million, down to $108 million...
Cried Michigan's Paul Shafer: "A year ago the Republicans fought rent control. The Democrats were for it. If they were crazy last year, why should we be this year?" Big-"city Congressmen were just as angry for the opposite reason. They claimed that a provision permitting a 15% rent boost in return for a two-year lease was putting a shotgun in the landlord's hands...
...curious internal logic. The action "saves" 31-million-odd dollars in OIC outlay; it pleases those congressional minds who feel that the existence of America is, as such, her own best propaganda; and it ends the life of the OIC, the successor of that OWI which so many Congressmen unflinchingly regard as communistic...
...ease of bringing off these limited coups has apparently blinded the Committee members to the bigger facts. Russia, for instance, is now completely free to press the propaganda activity which so recently ran many Congressmen's benzedrine bill sky-high and made them back the projected 400-million dollar "diplomatic offensive." The Committee's implied faith that the 27 nations hitherto reached by the broadcasts and booklets of the OIC will continue to believe in America's aims through a process of visceral induction is one that the Soviet propagandists will greet with bulging squeals of delight...