Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advocates of the bill were reported to have been shocked when they entered the committee room and found several Congressmen smoking. Rev. Charles Wood of Washington made a passionate appeal for the bill, and turning his back on the committee he made his peroration to his followers...
...reason that the House does not take kindly to the measure is that it will shorten the terms of members in office at the time of the ratification and since Congressmen serve only two years instead of six years as do the Senators, they are more concerned about the measure...
Scouting around the outskirts of authoritative information, Robert Choate of the Boston Herald has been able to ascertain the general reaction among Democratic senators and congressmen to the approach of the mid-term elections. Although many men of influence, Senator Walsh among them, preferred to hold their peace, a number of lesser lights revealed a divergent drift under cover of a common watchword...
...quietly goes his way as one of Rhode Island's three Congressmen and does not even mention in his official biography in the Congressional Directory that his father was Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich...
...motion for cloture came to a vote. Diplomats thronged the galleries; Congressmen hurried in. President Coolidge, kept closely informed of what was passing, sent over a certified copy of the protocol. The name of the Ku Klux Klan was dragged across the chamber and hung on Senator Reed, who flung it off. Hiram Johnson got the last six minutes for objecting...