Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, last week, a long-simmering Bankruptcy Scandal boiled over. Charges of nepotism, favoritism in awarding receiverships, intimidation of witnesses, were made in Congress against U.S. District Judge Francis Asbury Winslow. Congressman La Guardia of New York called for the kind of investigation, by the House Judiciary Committee, that generally precedes impeachment. Countering, Judge Winslow said it was all "a diabolical plot." The chief citation against him was that he had suspended sentence on a ''crooked bust'' named Meyer Kaplan in return for an "understanding" which, when subsequently not fulfilled, caused Buster Kaplan to be jailed...
...broken." Instead of sharing the not altogether delicate Brisbanal anticipation of a Lindbergh son and heir, other commentators preferred to ponder the social evolution represented in the conjunction of the Lindbergh tradition and the House of Morgan. The late Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. (1860-1924) was a "radical" Congressman from Minnesota. At least "radical" is the word that J. Pierpont Morgan must have thought of when Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. was abusing the "Money Trust" and helping to precipitate the Congressional investigation...
...Many a Congressman, too, drifted into the hearing to do special battle for some pet product grawn in his district...
Turnips, celery and onions were hotly discussed. Congressman Fish (New York) pleaded with the Committee to give special attention to a high duty on celery grown under glass, as many of his constituents, celery growers, were existing only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers...
...deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt certain that the Republican Legislature would see to it that his district would disappear in the redivision of Massachusetts. He voted, nonetheless, for his own probable extinction...