Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson has been besieged by Congressmen from "distress" areas like Detroit to do something about the unemployment created by lagging defense orders amid civilian cutbacks. At the same time, small businessmen have been clamoring for a bigger share of defense work. Last week the Administration gave in to the political pressures and issued two orders that scandalized and alarmed many a Congressman...
Even from the viewpoint of the Congressmen who support it, UMT would be a failure. Its passage would accomplish nothing but the alienation of many votes...
...satisfy most of the Pentagon's needs for a backlog of fully-trained soldiers. UMS would also allow young men the certainty now made impossible by Selective Service. Because they would know exactly when they would have to serve, only a global emergency could disrupt their plans. As for Congressmen, they cannot expect to improve their political position by sponsoring a UMS program, but at least they would be accomplishing something useful...
...Representative quickly explained that the original genius of our government lay in the limitations on its power rather than in its systems of popular representation or checks and balances. But these limitations, which centered on power of the purse, have disappeared. Congressmen are granting the government "illegitimate functions" like security benefits, school lunches, and public housing ("the NKVD American Plan") and voting increased taxes to pay for them. And, according to Gwinn, the root of this evil is the Sixteenth or income tax Amendment--passed in 1913. The solution, then, is to restore the limitation that prevailed from...
Unshakable Respect. In Washington, Congressmen of both parties are well aware of MacArthur's latent popular appeal. After his dazzling return to the U.S. last spring and the dramatic hearings, he soon moved out of the public notice. Then, between sessions in the fall, Senators and Representatives going back home discovered that MacArthur had not faded away. The feeling is not enthusiasm so much as unshakable respect and confidence. It varies geographically, is most pronounced in the West and Midwest and least in the East...