Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suddenly and humbly intent on learning about atomic power, was sweating at the very thought of legislating about it. The Committee on Atomic Energy of the Senate started an A-B-C course in nuclear physics, planned to tour the Oak Ridge project in Tennessee. In the House, 60 Congressmen hurried to hear lectures by atomic scientists half their age, listened in absolute stillness. At week's end it was evident that there would be no legislation on atomic power for a while-perhaps months. Congress was starting all over again...
...Nerve Center. This feeling of renewed hope in G.O.P. Washington was based on a hunch that the Truman popularity would continue to drop. The hunch might be wrong. But the hope it kindled had several results. It perked up sagging G.O.P. morale. It whipped Republican Congressmen into a determination to draft a program of their own-and soon-probably before the G.O.P. National Committee meets in Chicago on Dec. 7. It also started the first hot-stove-league talk of 1948 presidential candidates...
That was why National Chairman Herbert Brownell insisted that G.O.P. Congressmen write a party program. It will almost certainly be along general lines: even the congressional elections are too far away for politicians to be specific. The real dilemma of G.O.P. program-writing is this: as the opposition party, how "conservative" and how "liberal" should...
Whatever the label, Congress was faced with a hard choice. Few Congressmen relish the responsibility of leaving any stone unturned in the quest for U.S. security. Yet there are a few dissenters even in the high command of the Army, Air Forces and Navy (e.g., Admiral Nimitz) who question the effectiveness of a year's peacetime training, however arduous...
Into troubled Palestine the British last week sent new thousands of battle-hardened soldiers, ready for a fight. In the U.S., a resolution introduced in Congress urged unlimited Jewish immigration into Palestine; mass meetings demanded a new British policy there, and an "unofficial" group of Americans (including three Congressmen) planned a flight to London to tell Britain exactly what to do about the problem...