Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disadvantage of being a Congressman is that you have to talk about one topic for months, years. On trains back to Washington last week, Congressmen were still talking, after a decade of it, about farm relief. Politically if not economically, something-must-be-done...
...politics, denounce "bawling at the voter"; chuckled when Professor Thomas Sewall Adams, of Yale, described the income tax as a "misplaced ideal"; learned from Dr. Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, that baseball players and fisticuffers have as good a right in his Dictionary as Congressmen; elected Professor James Henry Breasted, Chicago Orientalist, president of the American Historical Association, James Harvey Robinson, humanizer of knowledge, first vice president; heard various professors explain that the business man must study economics...
...military machine functions at a time like this. If the men had foundered at sea in a tramp steamor, the event would not have received half a column. But because it was dramatic, and occurred in a submarine, it was a perfect opportunity for subjective citizens and obscure congressmen to assail the navy. Few there are who would advocate the abolition of the automobile to save pedestrians, but the demand that submarines be done away with was but one of the cries of a silly squabble that one cane only hope will be obscured behind the bravery of the victims...
Going home for Christmas, jaded Congressmen had time and opportunity to read about themselves in the language of one of themselves. Red-headed (but amiable) Representative Loring M. Black Jr. of Brooklyn, N. Y., in an article entitled "Congress Isn't So Bad" in Plain Talk for January wrote as follows: ". . . The question before the house is: Has Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well...
Maine stood on the Capitol steps at Washington last week surrounded by Cabinet members, Senators, Congressmen, Civil War survivors. To onetime Confederates from Virginia, North Carolina and Texas, he handed back seven battle flags captured from them long ago by aggressive Maine Yankees...