Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bumbling, inefficient, nineteenth century Congress is not competent to cope with the complex problems of modern government. The need for Congressional reorganization, long heralded by political scientists, has been recognized by progressive Congressmen; and a joint, non-partisan committee, headed by Senator La Follette and Representative Monroney, has recommended a program of reform which is gratifyingly similar to that proposed by prominent university professors...
...danger of runaway inflation, they said to an anxious and puzzled nation, would be over by June 1947. Meanwhile, all that was needed was a little more reconversion patchwork. They got help from some Congressmen. The House will begin consideration of a bill to extend Paul Porter's OPA for another year, and authorize $2 billion for consumer subsidies. The Senate gave Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt $600 million to pass out in premiums for building materials...
Roland Young, author of "This Is Congress," seconded Holcombe's denunciation of Congressional inactivity with the words "Congress doesn't form our general policy; it lets the President do that; Congressmen are interested in details...
...Southern Congressmen, most of whom were among the 109 Democrats who had voted for the bill, exploded, demanded that the slur on their honor be expunged. It soon was. Next day Bob Hannegan meekly wired that the offending words were the unfortunate mistake of a misguided writer, who had already quit...
Southern tempers subsided-for the time being. But the incident was the perfect illustration of Bob Hannegan's election-year dilemma: how to persuade P.A.C.-hating and P.A.C.-loving Congressmen that they are all good Democrats under the skin...