Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through sheer discourtesy that Congressmen leave their seats during the reading of messages addressed to them by the President. They do not leave if he appears in person. And one of the chief reasons for their leaving when he does not appear is that the Presidential message, if a good one, is better seen than heard. It is an almanac and there are only two ways of coping with an almanac?to ignore it or pore over...
When the flags fly; as they did Monday for the first time since March, over the two boxlike wings of the high domed Capitol, the people of the U. S. are given to understand their will is being done. Do congressmen understand it that way? They swear they do. But such is the dignity of congressional membership, especially in the Senate, that the popu- lar "you may" is almost inevitably superseded by the congressional...
Democratic pundits said, in effect: "The three G. O. P. Congressmen succeeded three G. O. P. Congressmen. The elections of many a Democratic mayor and the amendment victory of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith in New York, indicate Democratic strength...
...suddenly invented an "America First Foundation" and invited all governors, congressmen and mayors of cities with 20,000 or more population to join-at $10 apiece. Here, for some reason, he experienced a setback. Not everyone accepted, and most who refused published their replies...
...reverberating "Magruder incident" closed peacefully last week, or almost closed. Various congressmen rumbled around Washington about an investigation of the charges brought last fortnight by Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, who wrote in the Saturday Evening Post that the Navy is over-officered, bound with expensive red tape and burdened with idle ships and shipyards [TIME, Oct. 3]. But officialdom was quiet. Admiral Magruder was not haled up for discipline...