Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relatively few of the Post's readers are voters. Citizens of the District of Columbia have as every one knows, no representatives in Congress Last week, handbills and stickers littered Washington (population, 528,000) as always in presidential years: "Give Washington national representation," "Let Washington vote for President...
...Congressional Committees-Indiana's Will R. Wood (Republican) and Arkansas's Will A. Oldfield (Democrat)-each predicted, as a matter of course, that their partisans throughout the land would win or retain enough seats to control the U. S. House of Representatives in the 71st Congress. The effect of these campaigns upon the presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism, has been and will...
...debt. If the Republicans should win, he would be the Senate's commanding figure and his commands would have to be listened to at the White House. When Sena tor Borah left Missouri it was to go to Washington to suggest that a special ses sion of Congress be promised for next spring to act on the farm problem, if necessary...
...Nominee Hoover's Boston speech, in which Nominee Smith's proposal of a non-partisan Tariff Commission was represented as a proposal to take Tariff control away from Congress, the Smith retort was: "What is the idea of all that? . . . I never suggested that the power of Congress be handed over to a commission, . . I ask that the Tariff Commission be rehabilitated and be strengthened, that the right type of people be appointed to it ... to lay before Congress and the people of the United States the underlying facts that sustain the reason for every change in a tariff schedule...
...Alexander M. Kohut president of the World Congress of Jewish Women. Reason: the Hoover relief work in Europe...