Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete control of the government at Washington, presents the remarkable spectacle of feeling compelled in its national platform to promise obedience to a provision of the Federal Constitution Which it has flagrantly disregarded and to apologize to the country for its failure to enforce laws enacted by the Congress of the United States. Speaking for the national Democracy, this convention pledges the party and its nominee to honest effort to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all other provisions of the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto...
...Robinson record in politics dates from 1894, when he entered the Arkansas Legislature. He had just been graduated in law from the University of Virginia and had started practicing in his native shack town of Lonoke, Ark. In 1902 he "talked his way" into Congress, serving five terms in the House. In 1913, he resigned from Congress to be inaugurated as Governor of Arkansas. A fortnight later, Senator Jeff Davis* died and Governor Robinson was elected to replace...
...protective tariff as a fundamental and essential principle of the economic life of this nation. . . . We realize that there are certain industries which cannot now successfully compete with foreign producers because of lower foreign wages and a lower cost of living abroad, and we pledge the next Republican Congress to an examination and where necessary a revision [upward], of these schedules...
...Congress promptly passed legislation authorizing the expenditure of $325,000,000 for the construction of flood control works, which it is believed will prevent the recurrence of such a disaster...
...previous political history of James W. Good is creditable but it is not spectacular. He was born in Cedar Rapids 62 years ago. He served in Congress seven times (1909-21) and retired when he was chairman of the pivotal Committee on Appropriations. Since then he has practiced law in Chicago and raised potatoes and angora goats in North Dakota. He met the Beaver Man in 1921, when they worked on the Budget together. He managed the Coolidge campaign in the West in 1924. When Hoover asked him a year ago to Hooverize the U. S., Good consented with pleasure...