Word: monroney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oklahoma's able young Congressman Aimer Stillwell Mike Monroney, who dug up these statistics, their relation to the manpower shortage is obvious. Said he: "Each branch and bureau is reaching and building up its own overhead and staff without any measure of essentiality. ... To a large extent, the Government is creating its own manpower problem...
...just for personal political reasons. With a branch of the U.S. Government under attack, it is high time for Congressmen to brace up - not to save their own hides but to preserve the principle of democratic legislation One such worried Congressman is 40-year-old Aimer Stillwell Mike Monroney...
...onetime newsman, friendly as an Airedale pup, Furniture Merchant Monroney arrived in Congress four years ago from Oklahoma City. To grow up as a good Congressman he listened, kept his mouth shut, studied hard, said nothing until he had something to say. What he said then usually made sense. This week earnest Mike Monroney stood up in Congress, brushed back his mop of hair, peered at his colleagues, and let them have...
Said Mike Monroney: "The people are ahead of Congress in their willingness to do anything and everything necessary to win the war. Congress has got to lead and not follow in the awful test that faces us. . . . The Legislature must not fail in this greatest of all tests. Every member has this responsibility to hand down to the next generation and those that follow: an unimpaired Democracy...
Summed up Oklahoma's Mike Monroney: "This bill gives Price Boss Leon Henderson the right to regulate everything except inflation...