Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henle & Stephenson constantly buttonhole West Virginians in hotel lobbies, in Congress, at teas, in their offices, in Union Station. Then the pair goes on the air and tells all. They quote Congressmen's offhand comments on one another. They report who went to what luncheon, whose wife was not invited, who has been appointed to what. When a poem by a West Virginian gets into the Congressional Record, they rush the news to the home folks. When Kentucky-born Fred Vinson was appointed Federal Loan Administrator, they reminded their listeners that he had relatives "all over the western part...
...meeting the criticisms of the bankers, C.E.D. thus offered, to those critics willing to take it, a graceful out. At the same time it gave doubtful Congressmen good authority for voting for instead of against Bretton Woods...
...Little Soviet." Old-line men of the Valley shied instinctively from such a deal. Congressmen were bombarded with protests. Wrathy editorials inveighed against the new "little Soviet." About the best anyone would predict for the model community, or corporation, or self-liquidating cooperative, or whatever it was, was a short and futile life. By last week they had changed their views. Rio Farms was a capitalistic enterprise, after all, and a paying one to boot...
...Congressmen charged that the Army's handling of prisoners of war was a "national scandal"; a Senate committee had started an investigation. Reports from camps around the country had the U.S. people concerned. There were questions they wanted answered: 1) how are prisoners (particularly Nazis) acting; 2) how is the U.S. treating them; 3) what will be the results of U.S. treatment-will they simply be to return a cadre of well-fed Nazis to Germany after...
...really told the U.S. what OPA was trying to do. Adman Bowles set out to tell it. He set up some 631 committees of farmers, housewives, industrialists to advise OPA (and incidentally to learn about it). He cut down the bedsheet-size questionnaires, pruned questions drastically. He wooed Congressmen with a special information service, took over the chore of answering letters from their mail which heckled...