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...Passed (168-to-160) a bill by New York's' Celler amending the Volstead Act so that physicians may prescribe medicinal liquor and beer without quantitative restrictions; sent it to the Senate. During the debate Texas' Blanton pointed out that the temporary presiding officer, Maryland's Palmisano, was a onetime bartender. Quitting the rostrum Representative Palmisano retorted: "I've never denied it. That's why I'm against Prohibition...
...went up as the Democratic majority, party politics aside, massed in defense of the Republican President. The impeachment resolution was "laid on the table" (i. e. defeated) by the overwhelming vote of 361-to-8. Seven Democrats voted for it: New York's Black and Griffin, Texas' Blanton and Patman (bonuseer who tried to impeach Mr. Mellon), North Carolina's Hancock, Ohio's Sweeney, Missouri's Romjue. Rarely before had a U. S. President received such a thumping big non-partisan vote of confidence from the House. Impeacher McFadden, denounced and condemned by all Republicans...
...English prizes, one honorable mention. Eugene O'Neill Jr. won a Greek philosophy prize, was named Ivy Orator at Yale. From Princeton were graduated (with high honors in modern languages) Mark Sullivan Jr., son of the political writer and (with high honors in art & archaeology) William Watt Blanton, son of Texas' Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton. From Holy Cross College (Worcester, Mass.) was graduated Francis R., son of Tammany Leader John Francis Curry...
...seemed a good time for blatantly Dry Congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton of Texas to get up and twit the Wets on their poor showing. Actually it was a bad time. For at that moment another Texas Congressman, paralyzed Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, put his black-gauntleted hands to the wheels of his rolling chair, pushed himself up to the rostrum and squiggled his name in the 145th blank space. Derisive Wet whoops from both sides of the House squelched crestfallen Congressman Blanton...
...Navy up by $760,000,000 to full treaty limits. New York's Bacon proposed bus and truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched a Dry low by seriously advocating the use of the Army, Navy, Militia, Shipping Board, and Inland Waterways Corp. for enforcement...