Word: congressmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mass meetings booed the top command, collected funds to buy space for protests in U.S. papers. They promised: "We are marking the names of Congressmen who are interested in our welfare...
...Place Like Home. The soldiers had the sympathies of Congressmen. Just as noisily as the G.I.s, Congressmen confounded confusion. Mississippi's rabble-rousing Rankin again plugged his bill to release any man who has been in the Army 18 months, or who had dependents, or who wanted to go to school (i.e., virtually every man jack). Pennsylvania's Rich had blabbered: "Every father, every mother, every wife, every child want their loved one to be with them at home. ... Remember there is no place like home...
Said Under Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall: "It is that philosophy of 'me and my son, John' that's flooding our Congressmen with a deluge of criticism of demobilization," and jeopardizing the nation's foreign policy-and its reputation as a serious nation. Like its soldiers, the U.S. public was also deciding questions of war and peace with its feet...
Because his officers have failed to explain what the Corps is doing in China, Janes spends many of his 20 offduty hours writing more letters than he has ever written before-to his parents, his friends, Senators and Congressmen. He wants them to find out for him why he is in China and how long he can expect to be there...
First he proposed a state rent-control law to replace OPA ceilings if Congress lets them expire this year. Such action might not endear Tom Dewey, titular head of the G.O.P., to those Republican Congressmen who take the view that price controls are an unnecessary evil born of the New Deal. But it sounded like smart long-term politics for wooing the man who might be in the street except for rent controls. (It also sounded realistic to most economists, who agree, however reluctantly, that the free supply-&-demand economy which was an inevitable war casualty could not return full...