Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help...
...matter how diligent and honest the national moneymen may be, only part of the total actually spent will be reported to Congress. Vast wads of local money, to be spent not literally in buying votes but in paying precinct "workers" to round up their families and friends, pass from , unnamed donors to taciturn precinct bosses. This money is meant, usually, to ensure the election of local candidates. The national candidates benefit simultaneously but the money does not show on their books...
...celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert, Vienna held last week its Saengerfest, the tenth Congress of German Singing Societies to which no less than 200,000 singers lent their services. In Vienna, grandstands seating 400,000 persons were constructed along the Ringstrasse in which the Viennese watched an almost interminable parade of singers. Richard Strauss, Vienna's chief musical luminary, opened the choral singing which was conducted in a huge hall specially constructed for the purpose on the Prater...
Bryan moved from Illinois to Nebraska intending to practice law and steer clear of politics, but "he could no more keep out of politics than the Old Soak could pass the swinging door." Elected to Congress at the age of 30, he was immediately conspicuous for his violent eloquence. Six years later (1896) he, a shrewd politician, achieved the Democratic nomination after the famous "Cross-of-Gold" speech in which he canonized free silver...
...draft text of a law authorizing vivisection of humans in an effort to discover a cure for cancer was unanimously approved, last week, by the board of National Sanitation at Havana, Cuba, and sent to the Cuban Congress for debate, action...