Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more congressmen traveled in such humble spirit, how much they might learn, or at least how much ignorance they would conceal! Of course, the newspapers would do their best to combat any such tendency toward silence, especially with summer coming on, for it's hard enough to fill thirty-two pages at any time of the year. But if congressmen returning from Europe are successful in quelling their natural tendencies, a great amount of hot air can be stored up for the snowy season, and the clouds of ignorance which hang over this darkened land of Egypt will...
Congress will hear of it. Congress will speak of it. (Congressmen already are speaking of it.) Congress made it. Congress can unmake it. And, very likely, Congress will do something about it-It, the Federal Trade Commission. Back of the question which began to be agitated last week, is a bit of history going back to 1914: In that year, the Commission was created by Congress. Its business was to investigate complaints made to it of alleged unfair practices in trade (misbranding of commodities, price-cutting to put competitors out of business, etc., etc.)-If it found the alleged practices...
...popping up from the deep; battle, murder and sudden death-these were the scenes, last week, as two divisions of the U. S. fleet played their war games off Hawaii like a school of sea-lions. In the wake of the fleet, with headquarters on the Islands, were Senators, Congressmen, newspaper correspondents. Much of the games between the Greens and the Whites they could not see. But, on land, they were confronted, not by another "war game"-not by strife but by maneuvers which many feared might be the prelude to eventual strife, an opposition, not of fleets...
...Some junketing Congressmen were also there, were courteously mentioned by the self-effacing journalists...
Once, Mark Hanna failed. Midlander though he was, he did not get his ship subsidy bill past the bombproof dugouts of Midland Congressmen...