Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democratic Congressmen from cities with large populations of Jewish voters wavered before a flurry of indignation stirred up by recent British policy in Palestine. New York City's Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a Zionist leader, set the minds of some at ease with a courageous statement supporting the loan on its own merits. Republicans from isolationist midwestern districts, however, felt no pro-loan pressure from Stassenite successes in Minnesota's primary (see Political Notes...
...Paris Conference. Voters who perhaps were not coming to love Britain more liked less the prospect of possible Russian autarchy in Europe. When Speaker Sam Rayburn left the rostrum to make his own personal plea for the loan, he spoke the thought which finally brought around many election-conscious Congressmen...
Nevertheless, the people and their Congressmen kept their fingers crossed. Many still feared that the worst was yet to come. But the week had brought meaningful examples of free markets at work (see BUSINESS...
...with Andy May: "Those fellows are good friends of mine and have been very kindly to me in the past about some things and I want to help them if I could." (When General Campbell said he had, as usual, made a recorded transcript of the talk, other worried Congressmen lost sight of the investigation completely, began a furious hue-& -cry about "wire-tapping...
...booth in the Square was forced to suspend operations by order of the Cambridge City Manager last Tuesday. The booth, which was set up in front of the Coop on Monday, had already sold 30 telegrams and over one hundred postcards to passers-by to send to their Congressmen protesting the delay in the return of OPA controls...