Word: congressmen
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These demonstrations of affection greatly bolster Franco's hand in dealing with his own people and with the outside world. Although President Truman and the State Department disclaim all responsibility for such overtures, a goodly number of Congressmen and military leaders backs cooperation with Spain for various strategic, economic, and religious reasons. Motions to include Spain in ECA and the arms program mustered considerable Congressional support...
When Thomas returned to his office last week, one of his first callers was Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. After a long and earnest conversation, peace was declared. Johnson issued a formal statement which put Congressmen and federal officials on their honor to use military aircraft only for trips in the "national interest." Definition of national interest was largely left to the conscience of the officeholder and his boss. Cooed Elmer Thomas: "I commend Secretary Johnson for his decision...
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson lowered the boom last week on congressional junketing in Army & Navy planes. Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, a veteran finagler, had planned a two-month "inspection trip" overseas and he had asked Johnson to provide air transport for himself and eleven other Congressmen. As chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the armed services, he might have expected a soft answer, but instead he drew a crisp refusal: ". . . The services do not have aircraft to spare for trips of this sort," wrote Johnson. "The cost . . . for such a special flight easily can exceed...
There were anguished complaints from some Congressmen whose local districts would be hurt, but, mindful of the demands they had often made for economy, many a Congressman manfully choked and swallowed in silence. The services themselves were surprisingly philosophic. Said Under Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball: "We've had this coming a long time. The war is over...
...week's end the threat of a bank run appeared to be ended, but Mexican bankers and politicos had not heard the last of smuggled silver. Congressmen were ready to take the matter up this week...