Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Left to themselves in comparative peace, by the Vienna rabble, the 14th Zionist Congressmen (TIME, Aug. 24th, 31) last week made war with one another. The Congress had practically decided to elect Nahum Sokolov, executive committee head, President of the World Zionists. The outgoing President, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, was apparently willing to take a vacation...
...YEAR CONGRESSMEN POPULATION...
...proposed to make a new apportionment, with 483 Congressmen at a ratio of one to every 218,986 population...
...virtue" of this plan is that no state would have fewer Congressmen than it has at present. Twenty-three states would have the same number. Twenty-five would have additional seats as follows: California, 5; Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 4; Illinois, Texas, 3; Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, 2; Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
Naturally Congressmen and Senators were aroused at the prospect of loss of patronage. The ineluctable hand of politics last week reached into the Treasury Department and seized a concession. It was officially announced that Senators would have the opportunity of consulting with General Andrews before he chose his men, and that if any Senator objected to the appointment of a man in his district, his veto should be absolute...