Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like Mark Hanna's daughter in Illinois (Mrs. Medill McCormick), William Jennings Bryan's daughter in Florida seemed virtually assured of election to the House. There, the two Daughters would swell the "women's bloc...
...courtship, his lowly birth, and even about his cooks, but not a word has been printed about his skill with rod, reel, and creel. It is understandable, pe haps, that the attention of the public might be side-tracked temporarily on minor issues, on the Prohibition question, rebellious farm bloc, or a yelping Senator Norris, but can this important qualification for the highest position this country can offer a man be neglected for long...
...immediate program is to increase the Wet bloc in Congress by working locally for the election of Wet Senators and Representatives. At last showing (TIME, Feb. 27), the Wet bloc in the House was 61 strong, led by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland. The A. A. P. A. will also try to insert anti-Prohibition planks in the national platforms adopted at Kansas City and Houston...
Victor L. Berger was there, the unique Socialist member of Congress. He could point to no legislative victories and lamented the defection of all but three Congressmen, including himself and New York's vociferous La Guardia, from what was once a bloc of ten House "radicals." Mr. Berger, as chairman of the party's executive committee, promised a light-wines-&-beer plank in the Socialist platform...
This afternoon at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6. Mr. C. J. Brand will speak on "Legislative Origins and Processes" in connection with Professor B. F. Wright's course in Government Mr. Brand is Executive Secretary of the National Fertilizer Association, one of the Farm Bloc organizations