Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Congressman Jacob Thorkelson, 63, a doctor from Butte, Mont., took his seat in the House last January, he was hailed heartily. Reason : he took the place of unpopular, left-wing Jerry J. O'Connell...
...blond, fattening, ruddy man of 43 who received her summons had a bitter and significant story for Congressman Martin Dies. That worthy and his co-committeemen could have read the story at any time since 1937, when Fred Erwin Beal told all in his book, Proletarian Journey. But a detour for Prisoner Beal from North Carolina to Washington made more headlines for Mr. Dies, focused national attention on an episode which shamed U. S. Communists long before Joseph Stalin signed with Adolf Hitler...
Noting that 23 of 71 Bund units listed by Witness Kuhn were concentrated in and near New York City, Congressman Starnes wondered out loud whether this was because of the aircraft and naval manufacturing plants handy for sabotage in that area. Cried Mr. Kuhn: "That's the same thing Lipshitz said. You know who Lipshitz is? That's Walter Winchell. Lipshitz is his real name...
First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman...
When the picture was over, the audience applauded loudly. But coming out from under its spell, some of them must have wondered if Director Frank Caprahad been reading late great Secretary of State John Hay's outburst to Henry Adams: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...