Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...augurs ill for the permanent value, which it had been hoped this country would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only...
...cinema play of the War written by Laurence Stallings, co-author of What Price Glory, was taken from a four weeks' run on Broadway for a special one-night stand in the East Room of the White House. A 23-piece orchestra accompanied the film to Washington. Secretaries and Congressmen looked on as presidential guests...
Preparing to handle these issues, Congressmen and Senators presented many bills. The public printer was swamped with 2,565 bills to print...
This anomaly in a representative government has received the almost unanimous condemnation of American students of political science. It has been shown, for instance, that we require our Congressmen to work four years for two years' pay, which may possibly help to explain the uniformly low calibre of the men who are willing to accept our terms. And there is always, besides, a delay of thirteen months in the operation of a popular referendum...
...circulated a petition to put him on the Republican primary ballot as candidate for Congressman-at-large. If nominated next April he might be elected next November, and in December, 1927, when the next Congress will probably meet, he would be only six months under the minimum age for Congressmen (25 years...