Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived at Kansas City with its business organization intact, while the Democrats were faced with the necessity of complete reorganization. They recalled that every presidential campaign leaves the Democrats with a deficit, precluding all activity for the next four years, leaving leadership in the hands of Senators and Congressmen interested in their own reelection. Few party angels are available on demand (Houstonian Jones appeared as an archangel); between elections the national organization collapses completely or in part, depending on the enthusiasm of the national chairman. It was no secret at Houston that West Virginian Clem L. Shaver had little love...
...designed to put more merchantmen operating from the U. S., under the U. S. flag; it required only five out of the seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from the Wartime U. S. Emergency Fleet. Some Congressmen had tried to require the Board's unanimous vote, or six-out-of-seven. President Coolidge is anxious to oust the U. S. from the shipping business. To a provision doubling the pay of U. S. merchant mariners who join the Naval Reserve, the President had objected, but accepted it finally...
...ship building program. Theodore Douglas Robinson, convivial Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was sent "up the hill" to remind forgetful Senators that 16 ships were little enough; the Navy had asked originally for 71 ships. Grizzled sea-dogs were infuriated by a rumor, doubtless emanating from wickedly pacifist Congressmen, that President Coolidge himself had sanctioned sidetracking the ships to relieve the already strained Budget. . . . Whether or not the Navy's topmost chiefs, Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Hughes, believed this gossip, they smiled pleasantly enough at a ceremony outside the White House, when President Coolidge bestowed the Congressional Medal...
...genius is mythical and that between it and Prosperity, if any, there is not the remotest connection. But the politically important fact remains that Mr. Mellon and not some other banker has been the man in the office since 1921. It matters not what Treasury official wrote and what Congressmen revised the tax reduction bill that preceded the Coolidge landslide of 1924. Mr. Mellon's name was on it. Sometimes it is said that the name of Mellon is anathema to the farmers. If that is so, it is not reflected in the Secretary's mail, yet public...
What finally settled the debate was not the sweet reasonableness of Congressmen but the rapidity with which science advances. The boldness with which the so-called Power Trust plies its trade was another contributing factor...