Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of revolution, and his sister Anna, the eternal fraulein. The conquerors include a commanding general whose rifle-cracking speech sounds borrowed from George Patton; the general's rare-do-well nephew, who keeps his wife in a nervous sweat and Anna in a little apartment, and a Congressman who bellows in public to inspect the security files, and pants in private to visit a brothel...
...with the Government as a research physicist, helps split the atom and make the bomb possible. In postwar Washington (and still panting after the big money 5, he is about to team up with malefactors of great wealth who want to kidnap atomic energy for private profit. But a Congressman's rabble-rousing speech sickens him, sends him back to unhampered research behind university walls...
There were anguished complaints from some Congressmen whose local districts would be hurt, but, mindful of the demands they had often made for economy, many a Congressman manfully choked and swallowed in silence. The services themselves were surprisingly philosophic. Said Under Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball: "We've had this coming a long time. The war is over...
...before a House subcommittee last week strode the Federal Trade Commission's Lowell B. Mason. Under his arm was a new FTC report on the concentration of economic power in the U.S. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler considered the 96-page report important enough to call his subcommittee into special session to hear it. What the committee heard was a collection of giant-sized facts...
Sooner or later, every dollar spent by the U.S. Government must pass the watchful eye of ex-Congressman Lindsay Carter Warren. As the $12,000-a-year Comptroller General of the U.S., Warren has frequently barked an alarm at war contract settlements; he believes that "everybody and his brother were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Last week, Watchdog Warren showed some real bite. In a report to Congress on war contract settlements, he accused federal agencies of "improper payment of many millions of dollars of public funds through fraud, collusion, ignorance, inadvertence or overliberality...