Word: congressmen
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...Power of Attack. Despite the professed astonishment of some Congressmen, the road the President indicated was a logical development of U.S. diplomacy. Americans are instinctive isolationists. But U.S. foreign policy, paced by a technology and know-how which straddles the world, has followed an ever expanding, inevitable line...
...desks of Congress were already piled high with urgent and important legislation. Then President Truman added his foreign-policy message to the stack. At first, Congressmen were rocked on their heels by the historic responsibility thrust at them. When the shock wore off, they looked at their calendars to see how they could meet the March 31 deadline for aid to Greece and Turkey...
Ceiling of Zeros. With their heads in a spiral nebula of billions, Congressmen were treated to a floor show which brought the question of budgets down to its simplest terms. Into the House chamber walked California's Helen Gahagan Douglas with a shopping basket which she toted right up to the microphone. She had used the same shopping list last June, when the items in the basket totaled $10. Now, in a horrifying crescendo, she rattled off the post-OPA increases: butter, from 65? to 82?; eggs, 53? to 69?; two pounds of pork chops ("the poor...
Following the tradition of pre-war days when Congressmen were sure of getting home every summer and their biggest worry was the New Deal, the eightieth Congress has spent its first few weeks busily doing nothing. The Senate has been in session 36 days, the House 40. Legislative oratory filled almost 3500 closely printed pages in the Congressional Record. Over 4000 measures have been introduced. By the first of this week 13,442 nominations from the executive department had been received. Innumerable hours have been spent in tedious, boring committee meetings...
...Congress would meet this week and confirm Dr. Enrique Hertzog, 49, as successor to the late, lynched Dictator-President Gualberto Villarroel. Hertzog had beat Luis Fernando Guachalla by only 289 votes in the January elections. In return for the settlement made with Guachalla and followers all challenged Guachalla congressmen were to be seated, thus assuring the Guachallistas of at least a fair chance of controlling the new Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join his Government and help him deal with such pressing matters as a new tin miners' strike, an Argentine proposal...