Word: 74th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down to defeat in still another run-off went Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program was jut-jawed, 27-year-old Lyle H. Boren who stepped out of a Government job for the campaign. Gassaway's chief attack on him was his failure to marry, produce 14 children, as Gassaway had done. Replied Nominee Boren: "Old Noah or someone in the Bible...
...Superintendent William Henry Holmes of Mount Vernon, N. Y., candidate for the presidency of potent National Education Association. To choose a new president, to spend five days in exciting talk about their profession, 15,000 U. S. teachers and school officials journeyed to Portland, Ore., for NEA's 74th annual convention...
...second session of the 74th Congress will be remembered chiefly because it passed the $1,936,213,950 Bonus and appropriated $7,240,216,913 besides AAA, topping the $9,579,756,510 it voted in its first session...
...youthful tenor. It was 11:55 Prn. when the Senate finally gave in. But the House, though too tired for adjournment horseplay, could not stop talking. Not until 12:39 a. m. did Speaker Bankhead's gavel ring to a halt the listless end of the 74th Congress' listless second & last session...
...Congress' custom to make a farce of the term "deliberative assembly" in its last week, jam through more bills than it has passed in any previous week. But in the political year 1936 the 74th Congress, tardy because of its recess for the Republican convention and straining to be through in time for the Democratic convention, outdid most of its predecessors. Important bills enacted last week...