Word: carss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia, talkative New York Republican, had a dinner engagement with U. S. Representative William Leighton Carss of Minnesota, at Duluth. The day came and Representative La Guardia was still in New York. Representative La Guardia got into an airplane and in few hours, whizzing westward, was looking down on the sprawling metropolygon that is Chicago. Landing for fuel at Chicago's municipal airport, Representative La Guardia's plane hit a rut, upended, shook up Representative La Guardia and his pilot, broke a propeller and a dinner engagement...
...Idaho, Mr. Green of Iowa, Mr. Luce of Massachusetts, Mr. Tincher of Kansas rallied round Mr. Burton; but the majority of votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit, Mr. La Guardia of New York, who is now trying to bait Secretary Kellogg. It was a wave of pacifism rather than any great love of President Coolidge which brought these votes into...
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