Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Dr. A. M. Simpson, of the U. S. P. H. S. Surgeon General's staff, asked the House Appropriations Committee for funds to follow up this research. The Congressmen promised him ample money...
...elected City Attorney in 1910, re-elected City Attorney in 1914, elected Mayor in 1916, in 1918, in 1920, in 1924. Thus he is a four term mayor and a candidate for a fifth term. (The term was lengthened from two to four years in 1919.) This is exceptional. Congressmen, United States Senators, may be re-elected many, many times - but they are far removed from streets, alleys, ashes, garbage, sewage; all of which may be intimately irritating to voters. Mayors, consequently, are usually short-lived-politically at least. This is particularly true in large cities where even King George...
...time to breakfast parties? It is neither, but simply that 13 is the number of guests that can be seated comfortably around the White House table without putting in extra table-leaves. Last week there was a series of breakfasts at which the guests were groups of Congressmen 13 strong. Most notable was the Tuesday morning breakfast, attended by Senators sharing President Coolidge's antipathy toward the Jones shipping bill. For all the breakfasters' palavering, the bill passed the Senate that afternoon...
...George. Georgia Congressmen announced last week that they favored "George of Georgia" for the Democratic nomination. Their action followed the issuance by "George of Georgia" (U. S. Senator Walter Franklin George) of the following statement...
...ordering of Marines last week aroused criticism. Why had adequate reinforcements not been kept ready somewhere near Nicaragua? Of the 1,400 men embarking, 500 were at San Diego, Calif.; the rest had to be collected from Charleston, S. C., Hampton Roads, Va., Philadelphia and even Brooklyn. Congressmen agitated the broader question of whether or not "war" existed and was justified in Nicaragua. Defenders of the Administration sidetracked embarrassing resolutions (see THE CONGRESS). But Congress could not silence embarrassing remarks by citizens such as one Harold Leavey of Brooklyn, N. Y., father of one of the embarking Marines. Said...