Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Highest praise should go to President Truman and the nine Congressmen against the Rankin ("Veteran's Grab") Bill [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . No veteran wants to be treated as a member of a select group; if his country's cause is just, the veteran does not feel that his country is in debt to him for having served...
...legacy of the old British caste system (which the Socialists may have done much to erase in form, but not in substance), Britons hold public service and political office in higher esteem than people anywhere else in the world. This is a sharp contrast with the U.S., where Congressmen in the mass are still looked upon as rather comical blowhards, and civil servants as inferior drones who could not make a dime in competitive business life...
...William Randolph Hearst's trained seals, none were quicker on their flippers than the correspondents in his Washington bureau. When The Chief snapped, they did verbal, handstands for MacArthur, steadily honked that Dean Acheson was being fired any minute, tugged in pet Congressmen to sound off on any Hearstian cause...
This evidently does not interest the dairy men, nor does the ECA program nor even their own country's prestige and honesty; they, as well as the congressmen who cooperated with them, seem to be more interested in protecting their own profits. Congress would do well to make a little less noise about municipal and state-wide protection rackets and do something about its own version...
...draw up plans to remove at least part of their facilities to regions where power is more abundant (e.g., the Ohio River). As alternatives, he asked them to determine if the emergency could be met more economically by building additional standby steam plants in the Northwest. In alarm, Northwest Congressmen cried that the real solution is more hydroelectric dams...