Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wyoming and Arizona had both elected Democratic Senators and Governors. In Colorado, go-getting Democratic State Chairman Eugene Cervi, a onetime Denver Post reporter, had played his cards right and had actually trumped a Republican Governor and Congressman. Rhode Island had elected Democratic Congressmen, a Governor and a Senator. Despite a rough campaign, the Dewey landslide, and almost unanimous newspaper opposition, Manhattan's Communist-echo Congressman Vito Marcantonio was reelected...
That preliminary legislative program was agreed to by a score of party leaders, including members of the policy-shaping steering committee and other congressmen who sat in at the first meeting since Republicans won control of Congress in last week's elections...
...sacred confines of the American dollar. Traditional exponents of high tariff, the new majority party is again talking protectionism, led by its House majority leader, Joe Martin, long-tie friend of the "protected" Massachusetts shoe interests. This Republican line is fairly consistent: a majority of the G.O.P. Congressmen and Senators followed Taft's prodding and voted to kill the reciprocal trade agreements. Down the line on foreign economic questions, Republican voted in Congress are solid evidence of the party's reluctance to match world political leadership with the dollars and cents to make this leadership effective...
...Sounds. As the panic spread, the South's cotton patriots howled for the Government to do something about cotton as loudly as they had once howled to leave it alone. To Southern Congressmen, a free market was fine as long as prices were rising and consumers were paying the freight, intolerable when prices were falling. Cried Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas: The Commodity Credit Corp. should buy up a million bales at parity to 1) create an artificial shortage and 2) force up the price. Others demanded that OPA lift its 120-day limit on mill pricing of finished...
While the records of a representative in California may seem remote to the voter in Massachusetts, in practically every important measure appearing before the Seventy Ninth Congress, Democrats from California voted with Democrats from Massachusetts. With Southern Democrats maintaining a constant bloe to swing the balance right or left, Congressmen split along strict party lines on everything from the Tidelands Oil Bill to the proposal to establish a permanent Wood-Rankin Committee...