Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monroe Dectrine and the Panama Congress", Professor Baxter, Harvard...
...Federal Radio Commission's reassignment of station wavelengths. Perhaps the new charts will serve for some time, perhaps they will need changing again before Christmas. In the Hoover view, radio's difficulties would be better handled in the Department of Commerce, where radio regulation rested before Congress declined Mr. Hoover's advice. It would not be surprising to hear him as President recommend to Congress what it refused him as Secretary. If Congress complied, radio might then be put under some oldtime Hoover man, one of the scores of specialists whom Mr. Hoover has had working under...
...People elected last week the 71st Congress of the United States, but the first meeting of this Congress does not occur until December, 1929, unless President Hoover should call a special session, which, he indicated might conceivably be necessary to deal with the farm problem. In order to elect this Congress it was necessary for the People to choose 435 members (all) of the House of Representatives, and 36 out of the 96 members of the Senate. This the People apparently accomplished, as the Election did not bring forth any controversy such as surrounded the election of Pennsylvania...
...Senate of the present (70th) Congress contains 47 Republicans (including irregulars). Of these only 13 had to be replaced either by re-election or election of successors. Of these, all were re-elected or Republicanly replaced...
...House. Aside from the prospect that the Republican majority manipulated by Wet Speaker Nicholas Longworth and Leader John Q. Tilson will be bigger than ever, it was noted that the House of Representatives in the next Congress will include a Negro, Oscar De Priest of Chicago. Also, it will contain seven women, four who were re-elected and three Ruths (see p. 11). It will also have a newspaperman, Louis Ludlow, of Indianapolis, onetime Washington correspondent, but there will be no Socialist since Wisconsin's Berger was defeated...