Word: congresses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past year; if there are not, something is sadly wrong with the institutions we fought for. It is the business of our elected representatives to find a way out of our difficulties--not merely to start long-winded investigations which accomplish nothing. As never before the nation looks to Congress to lead us out of the darkness of disorder into the clear sunshine of peace and progress...
...present juncture the most important concern of Congress should be settling the social unrest that is undermining our national existence. What the people want from Washington is peace, prosperity and production. What they are getting is pork, politics and piffile...
...august Senators and Representatives are preparing to take a two weeks vacation. While individually they urge increased work on the part of everyone else, collectively they vote themselves a fortnight's holiday. The words of Governor Coolidge in speaking of the Massachusetts Legislature apply equally well to Congress; service as a representative, voluntarily undertaken, cannot be looked upon as a job; it is a trust, and one not lightly to be cast aside...
...Covenant. As stated therein, the United States, together with the other countries of the League, assume an obligation to maintain the territorial integrity of any country in the League. But action by the United States toward this end is in every case left to a decision of Congress as to what form our action shall take. Now, the stand taken by Senator Lodge on this matter is that, if the United States assumes such an obligation, she must uphold it in every case to the full, with power enough to finish the job regardless of the actions of the other...
...Senators come to some compromise before the session of Congress closed?" was the next question put to Mr. Crocker. "It is my belief," he continued, "that the two opposing arrays of Senators were bound to fight the matter out to some extent, but only to such detail that it would be possible to make some compromise. However, they proceeded further and further until steps toward compromise were impossible in the tangle in which they had enmeshed themselves. The close of the session was upon them. When Senator Hitchcock had plunged his side into such difficulty that he wished...