Word: whitten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mississippi Democrat Jamie L. Whitten, subcommittee chairman, summed up: "We are not trying to neglect civil defense ... If it were humanly possible and within financial reach to give complete protection from the atomic bomb . . . that would be the desire of all of us. But . . . you cannot build enough holes in the ground with all the money in the federal...
Anyone who wants to trim Government spending is apt to be branded as a narrow-minded pinchpenny who would starve the poor, paralyze the processes of government and hold back progress. None of these charges would quite fit Mississippi's Representative Jamie L. Whitten, or answer what he had discovered about the living habits of the U.S. Insect-Control Agency, the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. His House appropriations subcommittee had dispatched three congressional investigators to discover how the bureau had spent its last $7,000,000 budget. Sample findings...
...Whitten wanted bugs controlled as much as anyone else, he insisted in a report made public last week, but he wanted the bug-controllers controlled too. "I think," he admonished Assistant Bureau Chief S. A. Rohwer, "that [the bureau] has been caught short." Replied Rohwer: "I agree with...