Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress. All were widows, two were grandmothers. Two were able daughters of famed politicos. All three campaigned without emphasis on their sex. They were two Republicans and one Democrat, but all represented the new type of political woman. They were all ladies of greater wealth than previous women Congressmen have been. One's husband had been a Senator and his seat in the Senate was her ultimate goal. But none was a Representative's widow, as has usually been the case with Congresswomen...
...Every time the Federal Government goes into a commercial business, 531 Senators and Congressmen become the actual board of directors of that business. Every time a state government goes into business, one or two hundred state senators and legislators become the actual directors of that business. Even if they were supermen and if there were no politics in the United States, no body of such numbers could competently direct commercial activities; for that requires initiative, instant decision and action...
...time when huntsmen oil their shotguns and go a-gunning for wild ducks. Now, too, is a time when Congressmen oil their tongues and try to escape being "lame ducks" when Congress sits after the election. This conjunction of times was a happy one for the duckhunters of Barnegat Bay, N. J., and for Representative Harold G. Hoffman. The hunters spoke to Mr. Hoffman, who smiled and spoke to Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order...
...second baseman came from Buffalo to play with the Washington American League Club. In 1924, he managed the team which that year won the pennant and the World Series. Bucky Harris, the manager, became the greatest man in Washington. Coolidge was proud to shake his hand and Congressmen were lucky to get a look...
...warmest ambition is to return to a Federal judgeship in California. If Nominee Hoover is elected, she may get the appointment. That the Senate would confirm her is less certain, in fact most doubtful. In her pursuit and presentation of "the moral issue," she has been as hard on Congressmen as on the rest. Her lack of sympathy for the politics of Prohibition embarrassed the G. O. P. in the 1924 campaign. Now she is "the personification of Prohibition." Few Senators are sufficiently "noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" to approve putting Mrs. Willebrandt on a bench...