Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Embarrassing Questions. Lawyer John Foster Dulles properly escaped his probing, and Fulbright questioned the qualifications of Congressmen Sol Bloom of New York and Charles Eaton of New Jersey only by implication. But he wanted to know why Delaware's John G. Townsend, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, rated the trip to London. Did Frank C. Walker, the former Democratic Postmaster General, have any experience in foreign affairs? The average age of the five, he mused, was over...
...tartness in contemporary political verse, "Sagittarius" of the London New Statesman easily tops the world. Last week she wrote carols that British Members of Parliament and American Congressmen might suitably sing to each other. After the British sang their thanks for "a gift with strings a-dangling," the Americans were to reply with "Good Lord Halifax" (to the tune of Good-King Wenceslas...
Every President since Theodore Roosevelt has felt an urge to perform drastic surgery on the Government's multiplying bureaus. Each has asked Congress for a scalpel, in the form of a reorganization bill, but most of them got something that looked more like a rubber dagger. Congressmen always shuddered at the idea of a President whacking at patronage with anything that would really...
Jealous of their committee assignments and seniority, Congressmen fished up red herrings. Crusty Carl Vinson and Andrew May introduced legislation to set up a separate air force but drop the idea of a merger. It was a calculated effort. Where merger would cut in half the number of such committee places, the Vinson-May plan would increase them by half...
...week's end the noise abated. Harry Truman, working out his solution, was getting ready at last to present it. Army-men, Navymen, Congressmen waited to see whether it, too, would be Solomonic-or a Missouri compromise...