Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...80th Congress will re-examine the reciprocal trade program created by Cordell Hull; Nebraska's high-tariff Senator Hugh Butler has written Assistant Secretary of State Clayton asking him to postpone trade negotiations with 18 nations. Republican Congressmen would like to scrutinize some 3,000 pending trade agreement items before any agreements are made under the blanket authority delegated by Democratic Congresses to the President...
Last week Congressmen heard that Navy Secretary Forrestal was willing to give in even on this question, dear as it was to Navymen's hearts. Thus encouraged, G.O.P. steersmen were getting ready to put merger up to the 80th Congress: it would provide some of the budget economies they had promised...
This issue, transcending political lines and prejudices, must not be allowed to go the way of other anti-inflation measures, by default. Not only should every effort be made on the part of an alerted citizenry to urge their Congressmen not to do away with this control, but state legislatures and officials should also be impressed by the necessity of passing state laws governing the question of rent-control. In this way, the activities of a few selfish men in our midst will be frustrated. And in this whole problem, the Republican party has the responsibility for which...
...State Department's decision was based in part on the belief that a number of Congressmen and plain Americans had become incensed by the "ingratitude" of some of the recipient nations. It was true that of the $3,693,000,000 spent by UNRRA in its three-year life, almost three-quarters had come out of U.S. pockets. More than half of this money had been spent (where it was needed most) in nations firmly within the Russian orbit. Yugoslavia received $429 million worth of food, fuel, commodities, industrial supplies and other necessary aid, Czechoslovakia $270 million, Poland...
...Kelly had held Chicago in his ham-handed fist for a dozen years. But last week his grip was so flabby that the Democrats lost, besides four Congressmen, two key county officers. The city simply could not pile up the plurality to outweigh the Republican suburbs in Cook County. With a Republican treasurer and Republican sheriff handing out Republican patronage, next April might well see a Republican in City Hall...