Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Commander Byrd, looking weather-beaten, stood before a cheering assemblage of ambassadors and ministers of many nations, Supreme Court justices, cabinet members, congressmen, scientists and high officers of the Army and Navy. He received the welcome and congratulations of President Coolidge, who also presented him with a gold medal from the National Geographic Society...
Public Buildings. The first public buildings bill passed since the War, was enacted to relieve the Government's housing shortage. It provided $165,000,000 to be spent over several years. To prevent the inevitable free-for-all fight that would have ensued among "pork" starved Congressmen, the unique expedient was adopted of allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to decide how the money should be spent (subject, however, to Congressional veto). Incidents. In the first rank of incidentals, aside from legislation were: 1) The ousting (TIME, April 19) of Mr. Brookhart from the Senate in favor of Daniel...
...used to be a custom-it was until 1913-that every year the Vice President gave a party for Congress. Quite a reception it was, the invited including 96 Senators, 435 Congressmen, Cabinet members and Justices of the Supreme Court, Army and Navy officers of high degree, a few hundred diplomats-a crush. But the modest Marshalls and the retiring Coolidges gave up the demonstration. This year the Daweses, with a large house and plenty of money, decided to resume it. In fact it is to take place very soon...
...since the war before continuing their wilful ways, to the late Walter Hines Page, who once wrote that he would not give Long Island or Moore County for the whole of Europe. In between, of course, lies the general run of journalistic and political opinion, spoken by editors and Congressmen, whose respective publics relish a savory Americanism...
...Congressmen of both Houses want to adjourn comparatively soon. All of the Representatives and more than one-third of the Senators are face to face with a Sphinxlike ballot box. There is a public buildings bill, a bill for increasing the pay of Federal judges, a bill for disposing of Muscle Shoals, bills for future handling of railroad and coal strikes, the French debt settlement, and above all farm relief?all clamoring for consideration. A first-rate legislative jam seems in the making, with the probability that many of these measures will not pass. And although Congressmen are eager...