Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another warning finger was pointed at the antiquated machinery of Congress. After a four-year study, the Committee on Congress of the American Political Science Association told Congressmen they now had two alternatives: they could go on with the present cumbersome, outdated practices, steadily surrendering leadership to the Executive, or they could reorganize and operate more effectively...
...A.P.S.A. report, published by the American Council on Public Affairs, in general paralleled the National Planning Association proposals (TIME, Jan. 29), but seemed even more detailed and realistic. N.P.A. had recommended raising Congressmen's salaries from $10,000 a year to $25,000; A.P.S.A. called this a "somewhat mythical figure," suggested $15,000. Gist of the A.P.S.A. plan...
Meanwhile, news from the home front stiffened opposition to any other kind of work law at all. The Mead (ex-Truman) Committee had swooped into the Norfolk Navy Yard, triumphantly brought out a report of labor surplus and waste there. Congressmen's mail told of bad management and "stretch-outs" (making a little job last a long time). Typical report: "I have worked for two weeks on a job I could have finished in two days...
...Congressmen reasoned that all that was needed was a good cleanout; there was no real labor pinch, that where there were local shortages, the voluntary methods advocated by organized labor and the N.A.M. would probably do the trick. Cleveland was launching such a campaign. Even the War Manpower Commission might be able to handle things. WMC had bared its muscle in Allentown, Pa., and had put high-paid brewery workers in munitions plants. Congress relaxed...
...meet the manpower pinch, local draft boards were already calling up deferred farm workers aged 18 to 25 and sending them off to the services. To most farmers it meant that work would be harder, crops inevitably shorter. Some wrote their Congressmen. One of them, North Dakota's hawk-nosed Senator William Langer, collected his farmers' mail, laid some of it before Congress as it considered the May-Bailey bill to draft 4-Fs. Samples, from Dakota farming towns...