Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this autumn's elections. Last week the A. A. P. A. announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...Constitution assigns to each State the same number of electors as the State has Congressmen. When electors were first chosen by popular vote, many a Legislature provided that people should vote for two electors at large-corresponding to their Senators-and one elector from their Congressional district, corresponding to their Representative. But as party politics developed, it was discovered that a State's importance in national politics was emphasized if all its electors could be won by one party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names...
...Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee went a telegram from Representative William Walton Griest, aged "dean" of Pennsylvania Congressmen: "If possible bottle up tight William Allen White and all other hot air artists that may be hovering around national headquarters. Please try your utmost. They are a distinct liability...
...where Finis James Garrett, for 23 years a member of the House, and since 1923 the House's boss Democrat, tried to get himself nominated for the seat in the Senate which now is occupied by blarney-tongued Kenneth Douglas McKellar. Senator McKellar won. "And that," said other Congressmen, "spells FINISH for Finis...
...British. It's some trash-lot of furriners, that's shore. They call 'em Yankees near as I can make it. ..." but he was content that his neighbors, of long standing feud, were with the enemy Yanks. And there were others, non-fighters: The congressmen came out to see Bull Run, The congressmen who like free shows and spectacles, They brought their wives and carriages along, They brought their speeches and their picnic-lunch, Their black constituent-hats and their devotion: Some even brought a little whisky, too. (A little whisky is a comforting thing For congressmen...