Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gann's brother, Vice President Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races, just as Grover Cleveland liked duckshooting, Calvin Coolidge fishing, Herbert Hoover building toy dams. In the minds of many a temperate Christian woman, horse-racing is almost as iniquitous as liquor but so far no prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went...
Like all such maneuvers, the Battle of Rancocas Creek, observers agreed, will be detailed to Congress next winter as an argument to show the need for increased appropriations for national defense...
...summer, without Congress or competition, any Senator who stays in Washington can make news, get publicity. Last week's prime hot-weather newsmaker was Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas. He made four items of news by demanding...
...Another critic of lobbies last week was Calvin Coolidge who wrote in the American Magazine that Congress was "subservient to organized minorities," that' lobby-produced legislation is "excessively expensive...
Unmoved, parsimonious President Irigoyen continued not to spend. He announced that he would authorize no payments until all the contracts let by the previous administration were reexamined. In vain irate creditor firms throughout the world protested that their contracts had been authorized by the Argentine Congress and are binding, even mandatory upon the Treasury. The essential fact is simply that President Hipolito Irigoyen is the absolute and irresponsible "political boss" of Argentina. When he chooses to pay there will be no difficulty, for receipts and surplus in the Argentine Treasury are adequate, even above normal. Friends of Argentina hoped that...