Word: blantons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Representative Homer Parker from Georgia rose to a point of personal privilege. He complained that newspapers had attacked him because he was convicted in 1917 of breaking Georgia's gambling law by playing poker. He too was shushed after Texas' blatant Blanton had demanded: "Has it come to a point where engaging in a poker game reflects upon the integrity of a legislator...
Ramrod-straight, Major General Blanton Winship, U. S. A. retired, marched up the gangplank of the steamer Coamo in Manhattan last week, quietly retired to his cabin to settle himself for the four-day voyage to Puerto Rico. There he was to take over the job of Governor which had proved too politically hot for Robert Hayes Gore (TIME, Jan. 22). The one-time Judge Advocate General of the Army smilingly told newshawks that he had nothing to say about his new post. But a fellow-passenger, who had also just landed a big Puerto Rican job, said plenty...
...conducive to my own health or that of members of my family." The President accepted with customary regrets, and within one hour nominated for Governor of Puerto Rico a man who he believed would bear up better under the island's torrid political climate. He was Major General Blanton Winship, U. S. A. retired, of Macon, Ga. General Winship is a rare type, an experienced U. S. colonial official. He entered the Army in '98, wears the ribbons of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrec tion, the Cuban Pacification, the Mexican Punitive Expedition, the World...
...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...