Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poured in from newsmen. The skidding stockmarket? The President was interested, of course. But he had no comment. The maritime strike? Still in the hands of the Department of Labor. A special session of Congress? The President didn't think there was any emergency that would require it; Congressmen were entitled to an uninterrupted spell of politicking...
Western Reserve sends 95% of its graduates to college. But Headmaster-Elect Hallowell says: "We do not want to produce intellectual geniuses, but only good citizens." Among the Academy's "good citizens": Author Rupert Hughes, three senators, four governors, ten congressmen...
...there were Communists and fellow travelers at the policy levels, as many Congressmen insist, they were likely to stay there for a while. So far, State had shown no inclination to tackle anybody with influence who might put up a fight...
...work out the difference. For vets out for an easy time, the 52-20 club (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was a simpler solution. But many a vet at college still felt that the Government had promised to underwrite the whole cost of his education. So did some veteran-conscious congressmen. Three bills to increase allotments died when the 79th Congress adjourned, may be up again next session...
When Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren opened the RFC's books last fall for a routine audit, he threw up his hands in dismay. Things were in such a mess, he later told Congressmen, that no one could tell for sure how much money the huge lending agency had on hand, where its money was invested, how much it had coming in, or how much it owed. Last week, after a sharp rebuke from the House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, which upheld Lindsay Warren, the agency finally got started on the job of setting its records...