Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress. *Thomas Jefferson loomed in 1799 as the foe of Federalism, leader of Republicanism. Present day Virginians hail him as father of the Democracy...
...were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this attack, the President assumed a role of arbitrator between Congress and the Army engineers who had told the Administration what to recommend...
...undemonstrative, quiet little man whom the House stood up and cheered one day last week. His small, tired face bore the wrinkles of 17 years on a judge's bench in Iowa and 17 more years at a Representative's desk in Washington. In the present Congress and the two preceding it he had sat as chairman when the Ways & Means Committee was pondering long, statistical revenue bills. He was William Raymond Green, lord high custodian of the prime principle for which-the Fathers fought-taxation with representation...
...Grady, head of the Naval Science Department and an active member of the United States Navy, who led a fleet of submarines in the World War. He spoke on "Increased Naval Expenditures," bringing out first the point of national policy. People look with apprehension at the bill now before Congress for an enormous naval appropriation. It is true that both up-keep and original cost would involve a total of nearly a billion dollars. But such an expenditure would be not only desirable but indispensable. The United States has at present only ten cruisers afloat, and would in effect...
...suggest that Congress ought to pass a resolution memorializing Colonel Lindbergh not again to risk the hazards of the air or the perils of the sea, but to devote his life to leadership in America in the development of aircraft and in continuing before the young manhood of America that compelling inspiration w'hich his great example has already been...