Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, U.S. colleges turned a cold, unfriendly eye on the plan of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate college textbooks. Princeton and Cornell said that they saw no reason to send lists of books to the committee. If Congressmen wanted to know what Cornell was teaching, said Cornell's Chancellor Edmund Ezra Day, "they had better take courses there and find...
...Wellesley, Congregationalists debated resolutions and listened to speeches from their own and visiting churchmen. They heard New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed a hazy resolution citing...
Many a businessman, looking for Government contracts, has gotten lost in the bureaucratic jungle of Washington. But as every businessman should know, there are guides, known as five-percenters, to lead bewildered contract-seekers out of the swamp in a hurry. The guides, usually former Government officials or ex-Congressmen, know or claim to know the right people. For a retainer and 5% on the gross of any contract obtained, "influence" will be put to work. Few officials will admit that such influence exists, although it is part & parcel of the Governments patronage system. Only last month Defense Secretary Louis...
...their friendship, many of the other "friends" smiling down from Hunt's office walls promptly said that they didn't know him. They pointed out that it was easy to look like a man of distinction and influence in Washington; all anyone had to do was write Congressmen for autographed pictures and hang them on his wall...
...representatives were allowed to help revise it. Meanwhile, the University of Connecticut flatly refused to send in any book lists to the Un-American Activities Committee. Heads of other colleges protested. Said President Francis P. Gaines of Washington and Lee University, "Can you imagine a group of erudite Congressmen telling us what books our professors may use [in] literature and social anthropology...