Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victor L. Berger was there, the unique Socialist member of Congress. He could point to no legislative victories and lamented the defection of all but three Congressmen, including himself and New York's vociferous La Guardia, from what was once a bloc of ten House "radicals." Mr. Berger, as chairman of the party's executive committee, promised a light-wines-&-beer plank in the Socialist platform...
...Harry A. Mackay, mayor of Philadelphia, creature of the beery Republican machine of U. S. Senator-suspect Vare, took some Congressmen for a tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard last week. On the way he made a speech, saying: "In Washington they have all the dry members of Congress who make the laws and have legislative authority over the District of Columbia. They could mobilize very easily the greatest force of dry agents in the country. They have the highest administrative authority-the President of the United States-and yet Philadelphia is making a far greater effort than Washington...
...Congressmen. The Congressional nominations of the G. O. P. in Illinois had four points of interest and here the jabberwockian confusion was at its height...
...posts of Congressmen-at-large,* there were three candidates-the two present incumbents and a figure who moved through Illinois' electoral jungle like a creature from another land...
They laid Frank Bartlette Willis to rest in Delaware, Ohio, the town he had set out to make as famed as Marion. Congressmen and captains of industry attended the funeral. A Willis memorial fund was begun. Messages of condolence continued pouring in on Mrs. Willis, especially long ones from her dead husband's colleagues in the Senate. No message moved her more than a Senate message which came, not from a Senator, but from Richard L. ("Deacon") Riedel, a religiously-inclined boy commonly recognized in the Senate wing of the Capitol as Senator Willis' favorite Senate page...