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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although I am a native of the district Senator Willis used to represent in Congress, I had never heard him speak until last fall when I was taken along-for-the-ride to a rally of Republican women at Columbus; and since that time I've felt like starting out on a crusade-a futile one, probably, for I must admit that the girls seemed to relish such examples of bawling calf oratory as (I quote impressionistically) : "that lovable, that noble, that fooo-oully maligned man, Warren G. Harding"; "the gloooorious wooomanhood of the State of Ahia"; etc., much...
...from the Philippines, two from the Virgin Islands. Each and everyone was to vote for Candidate Smith. In Manhattan it became known that Candidate Smith would formalize his candidacy the week following Easter. Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is the Smith campaign manager. He will run for Congress, hoping to be White House spokesman in the House of Representatives...
Nicaragua.The Administration's answer to last week's news from Nicaragua (see p. 18) was a quiet order to the Navy Department to send 1,000 more marines to Managua at once. The week's news was that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the new electoral law which the U. S. Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming...
...against the presence of any Cabinet official on this floor at the time a matter is under consideration in which he is so vitally interested," he told the startled Mr. Wilbur. "I regard the presence here of this official as notice to Congress that it is not capable of dealing with this question without Cabinet guidance, and in remaining here, the Secretary of the Navy does so over my protest and I regard it as exceedingly bad taste...
...vociferous Oklahoman, respectfully informed him that "a Cabinet member ought to have sufficient judgment to know better." Mr. Wilbur blinked and stayed. Republican Leader Tilson got up to meet the storming Democrats with the ambiguous remark that it was a great pity that Cabinet officials did not come to Congress more often, and the Messrs. Hudson and Britten assured him that Secretaries Taft and Josephus Daniels used frequently to mingle with Congressmen on the floor of the House. Mr. Wilbur stayed to the bitter...