Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin, addressing U.S. citizens, did not need to send his own agents to this country to accomplish his purpose. It went on to say: "The last time U.S. Reds were investigated-by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in 1919-some 5,000 people were arrested and 263 deported . . . Some Congressmen think that to stamp out U.S. Communism now would be a national boon, cheap at any price...
...Illinois 1950 congressional elections the Republicans got 53.9% of the major party vote-a drop from their 1946 off-year showing. The state now has 18 Republican Congressmen and eight Democrats. One Senator, Paul Douglas, is a Democrat, one, Everett Dirksen, a Republican. Neither Senate seat is up this year...
...Roosevelt and the New Deal. In 1948 it gave Tom Dewey an edge of 150,000 votes (out of 3,735,000) and is now, by surface indications, once more a G.O.P. state. Its governor and both its U.S. Senators are Republican and so are 20 of its 33 Congressmen. Nevertheless, Pennsylvania must be wooed to be won by Eisenhower...
...think having Senators supported by private contributions is a fine idea-as long as there are a few cut-rate Congressmen around to represent us poor people...
...person concerned, ask for their autograph, and ask that they return the picture to me ... Of 17 returns of pictures which I have mailed to U.S. Senators and Representatives, Senator Nixon's envelope was the only one on which postage had been paid-the other 16 Congressmen preferring to return my picture in a franked, postage-free envelope...