Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretaries Kellogg, Wilbur, Mellon, Work; Speaker Longworth; Congressmen Snell, Treadway; Senators Borah, Curtis; C. Bascom Slemp, onetime Secretary to President Coolidge...
...vanguard of the invaders had already arrived; a group of Congressmen, and no less a personage than Frank W. Stearns, intimate friend and adviser of the President. He looked inquiringly into the limpid water of the canal, sailed for Manhattan after a two-day visit. In the near distance, Vice President Dawes hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes...
...side of the Great Lakes, last week, unwilling citizens of a Prohibition regime looked towards the promised land of Canada, saw it more promising still. Fat U. S. bootleggers chuckled over the prospect of a new source of whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the legislature of the Province of Ontario before crowded and expectant galleries, Premier Ferguson introduced his bill to do away with the present liquor laws* and substitute others based on the limited franchise laws of Ontario's sister province, Quebec. He faced an enthusiastic dripping Wet majority triumphantly elected last...
...Three. (Kahn of California, Rogers of Massachusetts, Norton of New Jersey. Kahn and Rogers are widows of Congressmen...
...months past while Congressmen talked in Washington, staged filibusters and many a fistibout, legislators were active in less-known legislative halls throughout the 48 states. And none more so than Kansas, for they passed a bill repealing the anti-cigaret law (TIME, Jan. 31), a law prohibiting marriage for the physically unfit and a bill repealing the blue law against Sunday movies. Last week the session came to an unexpected climax as legislators stirred drowsily in their seats in the Kansas senate chamber, waiting the noon recess. One Edgar Bennett, State Senator, rose, called up a resolution petitioning Congress...