Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members from New York's representation. A coalition of Southern Democrats and Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption of the Hoch amendment, though the Constitution had specifically designated "persons," not citizens, as the basis for Congressional representation. Said New York's Congressman O'Connor: "It's a wonder to me that any self-respecting alien stays in this country." But the assault of the South and the West provoked a counter attack from the North and the East. Up rose Representative George Holden Tinkham, Massachusetts Republican, to offer another amendment providing...
Born. To James Montgomery Beck Jr., son of Pennsylvania's Congressman Beck; and Mrs. Clarissa Tennant (Tennyson) Beck, niece of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, daughter of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon; a six-pound son, a five-pound daughter, twins. Mrs. Beck's first husband (divorced) was the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet...
...Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn, Missouri's onetime (1911-29) Senator James A Reed; Rt Rev. Monsignor John L. Belford of Brooklyn; Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, onetime (1913-21) White House physician; Rabbi Nathan Krass of Manhattan; Archdeacon Joseph Henry Dodshoti of Ohio, Episcopal clergyman; Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck...
...permitted but a single motion. He moved to recommit the bill to the Ways & Means Committee with instructions to eliminate the flexible provision which gave new and enlarged powers to the President to alter duties. This issue was not Mr. Garner's own. It belonged primarily to Republican Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Pennsylvania who last fortnight had flayed the doubtful constitutionality of this provision (TIME, June 3). On the Garner motion the vote was 157 for recommittal. 254 against...
...Beck's vote took courage. The industrialists of Pennsylvania, led by Joseph R. Grundy. had demanded the high duties of this bill, and more. To defy them involved a man-sized political risk, even for a constitutionalist like Mr. Beck. The Philadelphia Congressman declared the whole policy of the extra session a "mistake," insisted that he had voted his "personal convictions," left his more orthodox Republican colleagues thoroughly startled by his independence, as he departed to Atlanta to tell the Georgia Bar Association that, like the Parthenon, the constitution was "still beautiful in its ruins...