Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curtis seldom takes the floor in Congress, and then chiefly to make a point of order, remind his colleagues that they have strayed far from the matter theoretically under discussion, call for a vote, or move an adjournment. His legislative efforts, if they can be called legislative efforts, are chiefly of a domestic nature. In the last session of Congress he introduced seventy-six bills. Sixty-nine of them were pension bills. Five were bills to settle private claims. One was a bill to provide an Indian memorial at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. And the other was a bill to create...
...routine of his office--a man still young at sixty-seven, stockily built, sturdy, with more spring to his step than most men half his age, and reported by one of the most competent newspaper men in Washington to be the best poker player in either House of Congress. He is everybody's friend. His colleagues call him Charlie. His constituents swear by him as they would swear by a trusted Ford or a well-tried almanac. He knows an amazing number of them personally. Twenty years ago this month, when he had already served fourteen years in Congress...
Plans are already under way for the continuation of the activities of the International Council for next year, according to Hiss. An unofficial delegate may attend the model Congress for international delegates to be held next April at Amherst College, but there will be no representatives in any official capacity, it was announced...
...Southwest were not a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust law. Mr. Loree had had his Kansas City Southern R. R. buy control of the larger Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away the conflicts between the Clayton Anti-Trust Act and the 1920 Transportation (consolidation...
...cultivated to many-branched, nationwide spread the company planted in 1908 at Kent, Ohio, by the late John Davey, their father and "the father of tree surgery." In addition, Martin L. Davey has found time to be Mayor of Kent, Ohio (1914-1918) and a member of every Congress since the 65th except the 67th, when few Ohio Democrats survived the Harding gusher...