Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of his most vigorous bloc-mates-New York's Sirovich, La Guardia, Black; Illinois' Sabath, Britten; Missouri's Dyer. But Representative S. Harrison White, wet Coloradoan, is out and Maryland's John Philip Hill, Leader Linthicum's predecessor, failed to get back into Congress. All this in the face of the best efforts of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
Alfred E. Smith carried Massachusetts because, among other reasons, the state is overwhelmingly opposed to prohibition. In response to a question on the ballots, 33 out of 40 senatorial districts instructed their senators to vote for a resolution requesting Congress to take action for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. A wet vote of 619,000 glaringly opposed a dry vote of 347,910. Only three districts, rural and suburban, showed dry majorities. In the other four districts the question did not appear on the ballot...
...opposition" of the U. S. took stock of itself. In failing to win the Presidency, it had lost practically all its power in Congress. Its House minority was 100 seats. In the Senate it was 17 seats behind. It was almost as though the 15 millions who voted for Smith were left without any voice in the doings of the 21 millions who voted for Hoover...
Deputies and Senators of the Chilean Congress were circularized, last week, by the American Smelting and Refining Co. The circulars declared that only the most deplorable results can be expected if the Chilean Government takes action under the law empowering them to impose a tax similar in effect to a "protective tariff" for the benefit of Chilean smelting interests...
...Prime Minister is a natural leader of those large and undigested "national minorities" which Rumania greedily gulped at the close of the War. Two years ago Dr. Maniu merged his Peasant Party with other factions to form the National Peasant Party. Last spring he staged a gigantic Peasant Congress at Alba Julia, from which hundreds and thousands of ragged folk marched upon Bucharest (TIME, March...