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...Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements. As the site for a new temple, the congregation (the Reformed Hebrew Society) has purchased the large marble dwelling at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave., and 65th St. owned by Vincent Astor, and upon its ruins will erect a magnificent temple...
...possible to conduct concealed filibusters, where every speaker speaks directly to the issue, which it is almost impossible to break up by rule. Such a filibuster was conducted in the last session of the 65th Congress in 1918-19 in order to prevent the passage of revenue bills by the Democrats until the new Republican Congress should come into office "No one could have said that the ensuing debate was not legitimate. It transcended no rule of relevancy, and it proceeded to the very eve of adjournment. Then, early in the evening of March third, the filibuster emerged from...
...Trust Bldg., Buffalo, NY; Roy E. Larsen, 236 East 39th St., New York City; Henry R. Luce, 236 East 39th St., New York City; John S. Martin 236 East 39th St., New York City; T. J. C. Martyn, 236 E. 39th St., New York City; Morehead Patterson, 15 East 65th St., New York City; Stanley Woodward, 708 N. A. Bldg., Phila- delphia...
...native Kind, capitalized his record as hero," etc. Irrespective of what he said, does not your statement do him an injustice? The fact is that he stood for and was elected to Congress before the War- in 1916. I happened to be elected to the same, the 65th Congress, from which four members left to enter the Army. The late Gus Gardner of Massachusetts left in May or June, and died in camp the following January. I was the next to leave - in July, 1917. Then followed La Guardia, who left in September and, after that, Congressman Royal Johnson...
...Harrison of Mississippi, on the 15th; Brown of New Hampshire, on the 16th; Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, on the 20th, al- though he got a handful of votes from the 52nd on; Davis of Kansas dwindled out on the 51st; Cox of Ohio practically disappeared on the 65th; Ralston, after making a brave run in the 50's, dropped out for a time. Seventeen states never altered their vote during the entire first six days of balloting: California, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, all stuck solidly, persistently to McAdoo; Alabama...