Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Appropriations Committee expressing "deep concern" about proposed cuts in funds for the U.S. Information Agency. Result: the committee cut USIA by $37.9 million, or 26%. Hardly pausing for breath, it knocked $47.3 million, or 21%, from State Department budget requests. Army Secretary Wilber Brucker invited a group of Congressmen to witness at Army expense a military demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Brucker also passed the word that the affair would be held the same weekend as the nearby Kentucky Derby. Result: Brucker hastily canceled the invitation after a budget-cutting howl that could be heard...
...Capitol grounds were redolent with the chicken being barbecued for Congressmen (among the munchers for the promotional stunt celebrating "Chicken Day" were Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Minority Leader Joe Martin). But Washington's air was not filled with the fragrance of flowers, or even of barbecued chicken. It was filled with the brickbats and broken glass that blew from the great budget fracas...
WANDERING through the Capitol corridors at the lonely hour of 6 p.m., a newsman was surprised last week at the sight of a member of the Eisenhower Cabinet seeking out late-staying Congressmen to whom he could pour out his budget woes. What, asked the reporter, was the Cabinet member doing at that hour? "You know what I'm doing," snapped Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. "I'm trying to repair George Humphrey's wreckage...
...curling statements called for an extra-strong presidential rebuke if the U.S. was to believe that it was being taxed for an honest-weight budget. Instead, Ike decided to smooth things over, seemed almost to be agreeing with Humphrey when he remarked at his own press conference that if Congressmen could cut the budget, it "is their duty to do it." "I'm witk You." That was all the slashers needed. Before long, White House staffers were wringing their hands as they saw the Administration's programs under fire. Throughout the Administration the budget uproar came...
...sitdown strike has become unbecoming and disrespectful." Some political critics were unkind enough to recall the 1952 Republican platform, which indicated a return to twice-a-day home deliveries. The absence of the Saturday mailman was felt in every U.S. home-and no one knew better than the Congressmen that their constituents live in those homes...