Word: pork-barrel
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Faith always that we will win this herculean struggle ... is a prime requisite of 130,000,000 Americans. But individual character, individual ability to say "No" to the black-market scavenger, the political pork-barrel, the easy money which may produce inflation and lose the war for us-seems utterly basic...
...advertisement this week under the glaring banner: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS COUNTRY? The ad went over the same barren, dreary ground as the daily headlines: Our own young boys are dying bravely for us; so are Russians, British, Chinese; but in Washington the spectacle of pork-barrel politics is as unblushing as ever. The ad denounced the farm bloc as "those to whom V means Votes in November." Other culprits: the labor lobby, the anti-labor bloc, the silver bloc, all kinds of blocs. Said the Citizens For Victory, taking shame for the nation: "December 7-Bataan...
...Because Congress' pork-barrel price for domestic silver (71.11? an oz. v. 35⅛? for foreign metal) keeps it out of the industrial market, Manhattan Silver Dealers Handy & Harman had to prorate their customers. Yet Silver Senators last week were after Henry Morgenthau's scalp for trying to repeal the Silver Purchase...
...urged Congress indirectly, through a letter to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, to empower him to repeal individual items in bills (a death blow to pork-barrel legislation). He went ahead with plans for manpower mobilization-under which the 26,500,000 men registered in the draft will be classified for work in war industries, if they cannot fight...
...Chairman Joseph J. Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, Franklin Roosevelt sent a stern reminder that he had not yet gotten action on his long-cherished St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway is now a $277,000,000 item in a $990,000,000 catch-all pork-barrel bill. Its prospects are not good. The bill is buried deep down in the House calendar, with a conservative Rules Committee sitting on its chest. If it ever staggers up, bitter, bespectacled Representative Alfred Beiter of Buffalo, N.Y. (who sees his home town as a deserted village if the bill is passed...