Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman's justifications for his veto were not new. Chester Bowles, who resigned as Economic Stabilization Director last week in an evident move to strengthen the President's veto hand, had made the same arguments to Congressmen many times-and a majority of both Houses had rejected them...
...People. Could it be revived? Harry Truman made his follow-up play: he took his case to the people in another last-minute radio appeal, asked that they apply their pressure on Congressmen "to prevent inflation." An avalanche of telegrams descended on Washington (the White House reported that its wire score was 50 to 1 in favor of the President's action...
Those who participated in the decision were not only the Congressmen who stood OPA against a wall; not only vocal businessmen, pinched between rising costs and ceiling prices; not only silent consumers who satisfied their impatience for goods by going to the black market, but also OPA itself. As the end approached it too was convinced of the necessity of raising prices (last week it granted a dozen important price boosts...
...wish our Congressmen could live on British Army rations for a month, these rations which all the Britons say guiltily are so much better than their families get at home. I wish they could feel the embarrassment I feel when I read in the papers of the delays on action on the British Loan-and the apathetic attitude toward the world food situation. I believe they would feel, as I regretfully admit I feel, a sense of shame at being an American...
...Passed and sent to the House the La Follette bill which would: 1) pare down the 33 overlapping Senate committees to 15; 2) provide each Congressman with an administrative assistant; 3) raise Congressional pay from $10,000 to $15,000; 4) provide pensions for Congressmen retiring after...