Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, two months ago, Florida's genial, grey Senator Charles O. Andrews described the U.S. Congress. Many other Congressmen felt the same way. Last week a House committee turned in a report actually recommending that Congress improve itself. The report's seven signers ranged all the way from Reactionaries Howard Smith and Clare Hoffman to Leftist Jerry Voorhis...
...report proposed: 1) a pool of experts to supply technical information to Congressmen; 2) two joint House & Senate Committees, one to investigate the expenditures, the other to investigate the practices, of executive agencies; 3) another committee to study Congress itself, recommend even more improvements...
...President made little news, but his schedule of visitors was the most pack-jammed in many a week: admirals, generals, senators, congressmen, foreign envoys, plain citizens like Bernard Baruch, Henry Kaiser. He kept newsmen in suspense on the date and place of the upcoming meeting of the Big Three. Would he accept General de Gaulle's invitation to Paris? Perhaps, some day, when he had more time...
...Wallace's fellow students cheered wildly, then let loose a blizzard of free speech. Pro-Rainey leaflets, reprints of editorials, cartoons, letters came flying off the presses. Students were urged to mail these to parents, Congressmen, friends, home-town newspapers. A "Spread-the-Facts" fund was instituted with the motto: "Give until it hurts-the Regents...
...Polish National Liberation Committee: Edward Osubka-Morawski, Boleslaw Berut, Colonel General Michal Rola-Zymierski. Sitting side by side in the Kremlin, Stalin and Churchill talked to each group separately. Then they told them to get together. Weeks before, in London, Premier Mikolajczyk had told a group of U.S. Congressmen that he knew he would eventually have to yield to the Russians or "my head will roll." At week's end he had not lost his head...