Word: congressman
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Treeman Davey and Congressman Davey are the same. A brother, James A. G. Davey, helps with the tree business, as eastern representative and vice-president. But Martin L. Davey it is who cultivated to many-branched, nationwide spread the company planted in 1908 at Kent, Ohio, by the late John Davey, their father and "the father of tree surgery." In addition, Martin L. Davey has found time to be Mayor of Kent, Ohio (1914-1918) and a member of every Congress since the 65th except the 67th, when few Ohio Democrats survived the Harding gusher...
...except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there was Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of the Graphic Sketch Club; Charles Custis Harrison, onetime provost of the University of Pennsylvania; Samuel Yellin, master ironworker; Dr. Chevalier Jackson, who "devised" the bronchoscope. Tension in the audience increased as Congressman James M. Beck began to speak...
...Representative Cordell Hull from Tennessee, another Democrat. Candidate Hull, politically sagacious, understood the plan and made no statement. His friends, who sought to do him honor rather than to block another's path, displayed the Hull record: 37 years a lawyer, four years a judge, 20 years a Congressman, four years (1921-1924) chairman of the National Democratic Committee. The purpose of the Hull candidacy is to keep Tennessee from fighting too bitterly in the primary over Prohibition or, perchance over Roman Catholicism. The third or fourth ballot at the national convention is time enough to let some state electorates...
Died. John Wilbur Dwight, 68, of Dryden, N. Y. and Washington, onetime (1903-1913) Republican Congressman, president since 1913 of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
United Static. The U. S. was invented before its roads and railroads. In the 18th century it made some sense to allow 13 months between the time of a Congressman's election and the day he had to reach the Capital and take his seat. But it makes small sense today, and the four months allowed the President and Vice President, from Election Day to March 4, are similarly unnecessary...