Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge's request, the legislative engineers of the Flood Control bill called once more at the White House. The President took up a copy of their measure as last agreed upon by House and Senate, wrote three changes into it and walked away from his desk. The Congressmen found the changes acceptable and one of the knottiest knots of the session lay unraveled at last...
...should be more aware that Congressmen drink, often to excess and not infrequently during legislative hours, than Senator Caraway of Arkansas. His practice of wandering moodily all over the Senate chamber while his colleagues are sitting brings Senator Caraway close to more colleagues on both sides of the aisle than he could inspect if he sat like them at a desk. Yet none knew better than Senator Caraway the difficulty for the News of escaping libel damages if it became explicit. Therefore, and perhaps because he thought his wandering habits had been hinted at by the News...
Representative Thaddeus Campbell Sweet of New York telephoned Bolling Field one afternoon last week and asked Lieutenant Bushrod Hoppin, U. S. A., to fly him to Oswego, N. Y., where he was to make a speech. Such calls from Congressmen are encouraged by the War and Navy Departments. Lieut. Hoppin did not get the Representative's name very clearly but proceeded at once with preparations. They took off after breakfast next morning, in a new Army observation plane. By late-luncheon time, the plane was a wreck and Representative Sweet was dead...
...Christmas, thus showing rare good judgment. I enjoy it almost as much as chicken giblets. Until now. Under twin standing picture of Mrs. Longworth and Mrs. McCormick in fur coats which make them look like poor girls who work in stores, issue of April 23, p. 12, re Chicago Congressmen, you refer to "the two present incumbents...
...great Congressmen it is said that the longer they serve their districts, the less they serve their districts and the more they serve the nation. Of Representative Madden this was unusually true. His rise to dominance in the House was speedy after his first election in 1904. He measured up to make a trio of the famed Illinois couple of that time, Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon and James R. Mann. His district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please...