Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Maloney soon had the answer. He had Bowles made OPA chief for Connecticut. Then, after Leon Henderson was forced out by irate Congressmen and Prentiss Brown failed to win friends with a policy of appeasement, Maloney told Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes that Bowles was the man to head OPA. ''What's wrong with him?" asked Byrnes. Replied Maloney: "Only two things. He was on the America First Committee and he's damn fool enough to want to come to Washington...
...Ickes' husband" suddenly found himself boss of a $3,300,000,000 Public Works program. He was beset by fixers, agents, Congressmen. As well as he could-and he got pretty good at it-he repelled them. ("We have battled, toe to toe, with the avaricious and ruthless.") He presided with belligerent honesty over the Grand Coulee project, Boulder Dam, a vast $13,000,000 building to house his 4,686 Interior Department employes...
...Congressmen took another look at an old, controversial question-should the rights of labor be allowed to transcend the rights of the public to electricity, fuel, transportation, telephones? There was nothing hypothetical about the problem-the U.S. had just seen what weird things happen when a big city is denied even one essential service for a short time...
...When Congressmen from below the Mason-Dixon line speak up, southern womanhood rarely lacks champions. Georgia's Fifth District last week sent the House a woman to speak for herself...
...little bespectacled man with a Vandyke beard, a big nose, and wearing a white linen duster and a straw hat, hurried across the Long Bridge at Washington, D.C. on to the territory of a newly proclaimed nation, the Confederate States of America. He joined the crush of junketing Congressmen, society ladies in carriages and pleasure seekers who had jaunted out to see the Union Army trounce General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's Confederates at Bull Run. The little man in the linen duster was Mathew Brady, a popular portrait photographer of Washington and Manhattan...