Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families of soldiers were horrified by reports that some units were still fighting and shivering in summer clothes. A few angry Congressmen threatened to demand an investigation. Needled by the uproar, the Pentagon cabled General MacArthur for information. The general answered that all troops fighting in the northernmost (and coldest) areas were winterized; that although some pilfering of winter clothing (by Koreans from Army warehouses) had occurred, the losses had not affected frontline supply...
...that time he has been arrested twice. He has been threatened with commitment to a sanitarium because of his annual flood pamphlets to Eli freshmen, U. S. Congressmen, and Presidents, advocating the principles...
There were as many incidental answers as there had been races for House and Senate seats. One reason, for example, for Republican victories in Colorado was a scandal surrounding the Democratic warden of the state penitentiary. Local issues elected many Congressmen. There were millions of scratched ballots, millions of voters who crossed party lines to register an independent opinion. But certain important generalizations could be made, especially from the Senate races...
Organized labor, which likes to say it is on the march, hit a wide detour at the polls. At least 25 Congressmen who had generally voted in a way that labor approved lost their jobs; of eleven Senators marked by Big Labor for defeat, only one (Missouri's Donnell) went down...
According to reports received by the CRIMSON, the Administration will drop U.M.T. in favor of either U.M.S. or a deferments plan like that proposed by Trytten. Both the Army and many Congressmen feel that U.M.T. will not get men for the Army fast enough, and is cumbersome in administration...