Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorite hackman. Between calls he studied law, and gained admission to the bar at 21. At 24, he was elected county prosecutor and, when the Kansans denied themselves alcohol, he had to close up the Topeka saloons. His saloon-closing performance sent him to the Legislature. Thence he reached Congress, in 1893. He was a House member for 14 years, a Senator for three six-year terms thereafter...
...think that officers of the Navy generally feel that Rear Admiral Magruder went off half-cocked and that instead of doing the Navy a service he probably has hurt us in the eyes of the public. ... I do not believe that Admiral Magruder should or will be disciplined. . . . Congress will never tolerate the gagging of Admiral Magruder...
...When I took office, I told them there were too many navy yards. 'We know it, but we must keep them going,' was the reply I received. Thus, so long as Congress and the Navy Departments heads say we must have yards, we must have them...
Surrounded by soldiers, police and sombre-coated civilians, President Paul Doundouriotis, 72, puppet president of Greece, descended the steps of the town hall in Athens, well satisfied with his address to the Congress of Mayors, pompous, rotund, lean, from every municipality in the Republic of the Hellenes, otherwise Greece...
During the War, along with Eugene Victor Debs, Victor L. Berger was sentenced to prison under the Espionage Act. Congress refused to admit him after his re-election in 1918, and again after another re-election in 1919. In 1923, Milwaukeeans sent him to Washington once more. This time he was received, the U. S. Supreme Court having meantime (in 1921) decided that the judge* who sent him to prison was unduly prejudiced against Teutons...