Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to thank you for your summary of the work of the Seventieth Congress, TIME, March 19, under NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
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...
...Harry A. Mackay, mayor of Philadelphia, creature of the beery Republican machine of U. S. Senator-suspect Vare, took some Congressmen for a tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard last week. On the way he made a speech, saying: "In Washington they have all the dry members of Congress who make the laws and have legislative authority over the District of Columbia. They could mobilize very easily the greatest force of dry agents in the country. They have the highest administrative authority-the President of the United States-and yet Philadelphia is making a far greater effort than Washington...
...President and Congress set the rest of the country a real example in enforcement of the dry law, if prohibition is enforceable...
...McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this was a 1928 model not yet hyphenated, applied to all farm products except meats, vegetables and fruits. In general, Honest John Farmer could be said to favor it. Hence the politics in Congress...