Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee sent him to Congress as the first Socialist representative.* Appalled, Washington gaped at this ''political monster" who was no monster at all but a round German burgher, bald, shuffling, infinitely good-natured. Re-elected in 1918, he was refused his House seat by a vote of 309 to 1 because of his pacifist doctrines. In 1919 he was again elected, again barred. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in February, 1919, passed on him the verdict of "espionage," sentenced him, with a flourish, to 20 years' imprisonment. He never served a day of it. Higher courts reversed...
...Later Socialists in Congress, both from New York: Meyer London (1915–'19; 1921-23), Fiorella Henry La Guardia (1917-19; 1923- ). Mr. La Guardia, now Republican designee for Mayor of New York, was temporarily (1925-27) tagged a Socialist when endorsed by that party. He denounced the label as a "dirty Republican trick...
...happy man last week was Chaim Weizmann, goateed London chemist, president of the World Zionist Organization. Fortnight ago, when 322 delegates gathered in Zurich for the 16th biennial Zionist congress, he was less happy. For he was the appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must...
...Congress closed with the election of a coalition executive board, headed by Dr. Weizmann including three names famed in U. S. Jewry: Lotus Lipsky, Zionist editor of Manhattan, and Publicist Henrietta Szold and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, two one-time Manhattanites now living in Jerusalem. All eyes then turned toward Zurich Town Hall and the first council meeting of the All-Jewish Union...
...Behn went a step further. He added to I. T. & T. first the All American Cables, then the Mackay System (Postal Telegraph, Commercial Cables, Mackay Radio). Now he does business by telephone, cable and radio in most parts of the world. He has arranged to acquire, if and when Congress permits, the radio telegraph service of Radio Corp...