Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressmen have flown-and Congresswomen. Cabinet members have flown. Governors fly. Great generals, admirals, bankers and philanthropists fly. The President of Germany flies. Why doesn't Calvin Coolidge go up? Our leader should fly with Lindbergh! Perhaps he thinks it would be too great a loss to the country if he crashed fatally. I think it would be a great loss, but President Coolidge pointed out himself that there are plenty of big men to take his place. As a matter of fact, if Coolidge flew with Lindbergh and they crashed, the loss of Lindbergh would dwarf the loss...
...more certain the G. O. P. Congressmen feel that President Coolidge will not be leading their party in the November election, the less do they feel obliged to fight for his ideas on legislation. Last week, following the President's message of renunciation to Wyoming (TIME, April 2), the three biggest bones of contention between the Administration and Congress-Tax Reduction, Muscle Shoals, Farm Relief-appeared more contentious than ever and the prospect of three vetoes increased. Also, the House passed a far smaller Navy bill than the Administration had asked. Also, the Senate passed a Flood Control measure...
...parade of 2,000 men and women formed one morning last week below Capitol Hill and plodded grimly up it. Defying policemen, swarming into the House Office Building, they engulfed the caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee...
...more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist Lindbergh...
Many were the women, young and old, and men, too, who tried to look like Congressmen's relatives. One impostor actually succeeded in looking like Representative Parks of Arkansas, and was taken aloft...