Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bills, how he is regarded by unbiased observers so far as legislative ability goes. . . . Your thoro unbiased and courageous reports on national affairs and on individuals lead me to ask whether you can and do furnish to your readers . . . a report on the record of any particular member of Congress. . . . EVERETT M. DIRKSEN
...last week from his stock farm at Maracay, President Gomez unexpectedly wired his Congress: "I cannot accept the high charge...
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics MacCracken exercised his persuasive powers, induced Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to fly from New York to Washington last week, to tell a joint committee of Congress what sort of airport the capital ought to have. To the Committee, headed by air-minded Senator Bingham of Connecticut, Col. Lindbergh laid down the following specifications...
...Alexandria, Egypt, last week, a Czechoslovak composer opened his morning's mail, found a $1,000 check. Joseph Huttel had won the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Prize offered by the Library of Congress for a composition for piano and wind sextet. Contestants of 33 nationalities had submitted 135 scores. Prizeman Hüttel's work chosen unanimously by five judges (Judges Georges Barrere, Philip Hale, Ernest Henry Schelling, Leopold Stokowski and Chief Carl Engel of the Music Division of the Library of Congress) will be played next October at the Festival of Chamber Music in Washington...
...nothing but machinations of the Power Trust-and undoubtedly hoped to capture circulation from the 13 Graustein papers by painting them black. Said the Hearst press: "The Federal Trade Commission has uncovered the power trust's nationwide practices of buying reporters, editors and news agencies. "We believe that Congress, if it will, can find a way to stop these great interstate monopolies from using their huge financial resources, contributed by the people, to destroy the free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times...