Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressmen have little time to think about raising armies at this point--soothing the angry mothers, aroused by the last attempt to revise the draft law, and other matters occupy their efforts. But by the time elections are over, the number of petty yet justified complaints about the discriminatory and confusing consequences of a draft system based on Selective Service will have reached a level where Congress must take note of them. The time cannot come too soon...
...denied that there is any organized opposition to the bill, attributing its previous failure to "congressional inertia." He said that in the past, Congressmen have been unwilling to support legislation which they were not sure would work...
Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce was one of the many who wondered what the President really meant by the phrase, "I do not choose to run." Since Herbert Hoover's friends were urging him to run himself, he tried to get Silent Cal to talk. Ohio Congressmen, Secretary Hoover explained, were planning to enter Hoover's name in the Ohio primary. Replied Coolidge...
...difficult decision to make -until the Dixiecrats threw Richard B. Russell's hat into the ring . . . Ike could help synthesize a movement that would end the monopoly of important chairmanships in congressional committees now held by Dixiecrats on a seniority basis. Like "Old Man River," Southern Congressmen keep aruling on-due to Democratic Party control in the South...
...What Right Have I?" A few hours later, a train arrived from Philadelphia bearing the new Attorney General-designate, James Patrick McGranery,*minus an asbestos suit. Fires were immediately lighted under him. Some Congressmen said they would try to hold up his confirmation as Attorney General until they had questioned him thoroughly in his role in the Amerasia case (see box). From another quarter came an even sharper attack ; Philadelphia District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, a fellow Philadelphia Democrat, predicted: "The regime of McGranery will be marked by incompetence, bias, favoritism and ward politics at its worst." McGranery shrugged...