Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heaven Either. Off the floor the Congressmen also labored. House committees, finally organized under predominantly conservative G.O.P. leadership, gathered in committee rooms to discuss legislation. Ways & Means, under Minnesota's Harold Knutson, whipped out a bill to continue indefinitely the $1.2 billion excise taxes, terminated as of July by President Truman's proclamation of the end of hostilities (TIME...
...Congressmen in both chambers still sit under the temporary girders which were put up in 1940 to keep the Capitol roofs from falling...
...which really raised the hair of unionists was the bill of Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart. It sounded reasonable. The bill would prohibit suits against any employer who had "acted in good faith" to obey the Wages & Hours Act. But under this bill, which many Congressmen favored, unionists knew that it would be almost impossible to sue an employer, even for substandard wages, which had nothing to do with portal pay. The none-too-clear Supreme Court ruling, handed down by labor's old friend, Justice Frank Murphy, had obviously opened the door to much current trouble...
...good week to sit in the galleries of the House and the Senate, simply to watch the Congressmen at work. On the floor of both houses the tempo was slow, and it was possible to study types. There was the Long Haired Southerner or Patronage Ouzel; the Snapping Southerner or Mississippi Valley Shrill; the rare Old Shaggy or Great Trumpeting Republican and a few aging Bald New Dealers. And, of course, there were droves of newly elected Mute Republicans, all harrumphing softly and rattling paper with an anxious air of authority...
...Casey" anxiously weighs the probable great losses against the potential great gains, then makes his command decision. Forty planes and 400 men are missing on the first raid. About the time he gets the bad news, along comes the Old Man himself, with a delegation of junketing Congressmen. The Old Man, famed Major General Kane, is so unnerved by circumstances that he almost forgets to put out his well-known jaw for photographers. A noisy Southern Congressman in yellow shoes, lavender shirt and white felt hat is highly indignant at the losses...