Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is all that any Congressman needs to know about the mathematics of apportionment in order to protect himself and his state against any injustice in the matter of representation. There is a short-cut process of computation used by the experts in the Bureau of the Census to turn out, in two or three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case...
...Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans, all testified pro-Insull at the hearing last week. Onetime (1924-27) Governor William Jason Fields of Kentucky, Democrat, was there to decry the Insull scheme as unsightly, the du Pont plan as preservation of natural beauty. The du Pont-Insull fight thus tended...
...merely promising young Congressman expects to be lionized and fêted when, in Chicago by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc-Cormick, Mrs. Potter Palmer or other Tycoon's lady. But a third, second or first secretary of almost any embassy may aspire to these honors. They were bestowed in Chicago, last week, by Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Palmer upon the Second Secretary of the Persian Embassy, one Prince* Mozaffar Firouz. The Secretary-Prince is slender, with large nose and an intelligent expression. Obliging, he read to smart Chicagoans a lecture: The Regeneration of Persia. Tidily...
...especially the editorial writers of Eastern newspapers, expressed horror at Mr. Britten's "amazing indiscretion." They tartly accused him of publicity-seeking. They said he was trying to show off because he had just become chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee. They reminded people that he was the Congressman who wangled the Army-Navy football game out of the East and onto Soldier Field, Chicago, two years ago-a "publicity stunt" if ever there was one. Moreover Mr. Britten had been notoriously a Big Navy man. His volte face could only be meant as a grandstand play. The political...
...miraculous Republican, survived the Democratic landslide in Boston last month. He received only 333 votes less than Nominee Smith in his district and won his seat for the eighth consecutive time-a Boston record. Widely read and traveled, wealthy, a bachelor, he is in many ways an "ideal" Congressman. His large staff of secretaries is continually occupied doing things for his constituents. His correspondence is vast, perhaps 50,000 letters per annum. He was in Speaker Longworth's class at Harvard. He still takes pride in having been "the first American to fire a shot against the Austrians after...