Word: 69th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...69th Congress entered its last session like a mild, limping lamb and exited like a wild, snorting lion. In December, many a critic predicted a do-nothing session. "It will be lucky," said some, "if it passes the appropriation bills." As March 4 approached, it appeared that this session, unfamed, unsung, had accomplished more than any short session of Congress since Woodrow Wilson's first administration and seldom missed an opportunity to defy, vex, prod the Calvin Coolidge Adminstration. Important doings...
...unofficial opinions that so far as the President's equanimity may be disturbed, it has been disturbed. Cause: the Senate's refusal to confirm his appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Jan. 31). It was the second rejection by the 69th Congress. Previous one: Wallace McCamant, "original Coolidge man of Oregon," to be Federal Circuit Judge. Judge McCamant had once said of Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore Roosevelt was not a good American...
Shrewd Illinois congressmen, chiefly Representative Martin Madden, put the Chicago project into the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of the 69th Congress. It called for only $3,500,000 but if passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from...
...resolution. Three Republican Senators and two Democrats were appointed to look into the story of a $100,000 "bribe" which Mr. Gould is said to have paid to the Premier of New Brunswick in 1918 in connection with a railroad deal. Senator Gould is the only Republican in the 69th Congress whose seat is in immediate danger, but the charges against him are more remote than those against Messrs. Smith and Vare...
Smith. If Governor Small of Illinois should appoint Senator-elect Smith to fill out the late Senator McKinley's term in the 69th Congress, the fight to oust him would create such a broil that important legislation would be sidetracked and President Coolidge would probably be forced to call a special session of the 70th Congress. Hence, regular Republicans are urging Colonel Smith not to accept the appointment and Governor Small not to offer...