Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hero. The late Congressman Lindbergh left his seat in 1917. Son Lindbergh then lacked ten years of the constitutional age (25) for House membership. Many have been the suggestions that Hero Lindbergh should now attempt to succeed to his father's old seat in Congress. Against these suggestions arise three mighty obstacles: 1) Col. Lindbergh lacks a Minnesota residence. 2) Short, smiling Harold Knutson who took the Lindbergh seat a dozen years ago is firmly entrenched in the Republican organization of the House where he serves Speaker Longworth as whip (chief aide-de-camp) and from which...
...General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase of a car on credit has become the greatest danger to the Union. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens ruination for farmers as the motor car evil. "When a car is bought on credit the transaction ceases...
Speeches by many an oilman and Roger W. Babson, airplane races and stunting. exhibits of $12,000,000 worth of equipment last week entertained 100,000 visitors to the Sixth International Petroleum Exhibition and Congress, held in Tulsa, Okla. Yet to oilmen entertainment such as this can be only transitory. Always jostling their composure is knowledge that world consumption trails production. But one development during the Exposition cheered them, so cheered ever-optimistic Edwin Benjamin Reeser, president of the American Petroleum Institute, that he predicted U. S. production and consumption would balance...
...World engineering congress at Tokyo...
Harrah Case. U. S. Citizen Charles J. Harrah built himself a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sand into Havana. In 1917 his tracks were torn up, apparently at the order of one Manuel de La Cruz, member of the Cuban congress. The prosecution quailed before the offender's position as a national legislator. Mr. Harrah valued his road at $700,000, sued also far loss of income. Both Mr. Harrah and the Cuban government have consented to arbitrate this case...