Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With a congress of men of the type of Senator W. F. George of Georgia, the Constitution will be amended so as to cure the 65-year old wrong done the Southern people. The way should be opened to State legislation against the Negro. There is no longer excuse for evasion...
Sirs: Your comment on Congress with reference to passage through the House of Representatives of the census-apportionment bill (June 17) contained the statement: "The Tinkham amendment was probably as illegal as the Hoch." I am astonished to find such a palpable misstatement in your impartial and usually well-informed and ably edited columns. Whatever else my amendment might be and whatever else might be said about it-and plenty has been said-surely there is no basis for characterizing it as illegal. In fact, without my amendment the apportionment bill is not constitutional. Section 1 of the 14th amendment...
...last week, with Congress adjourned, the great summer exodus from the capital was well under way. The Government was running on slack steam. President Hoover was, as he put it, "condemned" to remain in the White House by public business. The Cabinet, always loyal to a new President, accepted condemnation with him. Not so the emissaries of foreign powers...
...policy to be too outspoken as to my sentiments, I don't mind telling you and the world that I believe a license for light wines and beers would be a great improvement over the present Prohibition laws. ... I find a good many of the members of Congress feel just about as I do but lack the moral courage to stand up and vote as they believe." Three weeks later Senator Gould reported to the company his progress as a winemaker: "It [two kegsful] was working quite lively. In fact the pressure was so great that the head...
Such were the problems and exercises suggested last week by the U. S. Prohibition Bureau in a broad plan for teaching school children throughout the land "the facts of Prohibition." To collect and disseminate "the facts" Congress had appropriated $50,000. To Miss Anna B. Sutter, Chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Division of Statistics and Education, fell this money and she it was who prepared a course of Prohibition instruction to be placed in all schools. Much to Miss Sutler's chagrin the Government's venture into pedagogy was short-lived...