Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a body called the National Committee for the Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment,* with offices at 100 Wall Street. The secretary of this committee, one Robert Athey, last week announced that 150,000 return postcards had been sent to voters. The cards bear a pledge to "vote against Congressmen who vote dry and drink wet and all those Congressmen who have received money or political support from the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U. or bootleggers, so there will be a liberal majority in the next Congress to help
...years the census is taken and every ten years the people's Representatives in the House are supposed to be allocated afresh, to reflect growth and shift of populations in the 435 Congressional districts. But Reapportionment with the 1920 census as a basis has been consistently blocked by Congressmen whose States had either no seat to gain or a seat or two to lose if the Constitution were obeyed...
...actually reported out by the House Census Committee last spring but was, as usual, recommitted by the House to the Committee, i. e. shelved (TIME, May 28). Now, last week, Representative Clarence J. McLeod of Michigan improved the shining hours of his summer vacation by sending letters to all Congressmen begging to have Reapportionment given the right of way when Congress sits in December...
...Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted he would "probably" carry Georgia and Arkansas, and "possibly" Virginia and Texas. They said the border-states of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma would surely be Anti-Smith. They planned mass meetings, advertised for funds, pledged themselves to elect Democratic Congressmen but to defeat the Democratic national ticket. Asked if the Anti-Smith Democrats would accept Republican moneys (see p. 6), Bishop Cannon said: "Certainly. I never look a gift horse in the mouth." They disguised their antipathy for Nominee Smith's Roman Catholicism in a "platform" attacking him only...
Jubilant, the Association against the Prohibition Amendment announced that it would help elect two Wet Congressmen from historically Dry North Dakota this autumn...