Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Creamy Jacket. In the midst of his domestic labors, he ran head-on into the tough, touchy Palestine problem. With rare irritation, Harry Truman informed a delegation of anxious Congressmen that he had no time to discuss the matter with them. He had too much else on his mind...
This week, a scant majority of Congressmen remained in Washington. They were exhausted and waspish-from the heat and eight years of overwork.* When they or their successors return in January, they will get more pay for less work-but work of better quality...
Then he appointed a commission to study the real issue. Last week, around an oval table in Manila's fiar Palace, five landlords and ten sharecroppers met with Roxas and two congressmen. In four hours the battle was over, with everybody happy. The landlords offered to give the peasants 70% of the crop, provided they pay all expenses. The peasants preferred to take only 55% if the landlords would provide tools and carabaos...
Furry has returned from a trip to Washington on behalf of the Association of Cambridge Scientists, on which he and George Valley, of MIT, attempted to convince Congressmen of the need for complete civilian control of atomic development problems...
Congress was finally forced to give in to the silver-loving Congressmen, led by Nevada's Pat McCarran. They had been able to hold up the Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill, threatening the pay of 552,000 federal employes. Now the Treasury can again sell silver from its vast hoard...