Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressmen and schoolboys enjoyed a week's vacation-that is, those Congressmen who were not busy with committee labors. On Dec. 29 the Congress reassembled with the expectation of only one day's recess for New Year...
...measure for bringing harmony out of incongruity in the Washington be caus, the proposed bill has its decided merits. But by what straining of the imagination the new ministry can be called one of education, none but Senators and Congressmen can see. It should rather he called, what it obviously is, "The Ministry of Odds and Ends". Education should be left to another measure which will treat it with the adequacy its importance deserves...
Carp-shaped Long Island has ten Congressmen and nine of them are Democrats. But the tenth is a Republican by great odds. Robert L. Bacon, son of the famed financier, Secretary of State, Ambassador, was elected to Congress by the First New York District (Long Island) with a plurality of 48,800, the greatest plurality ever received by a Congressman in a contested district in that state...
...reduction was the one suit which politicians had not expected to play. They were as startled as auction bridge players hearing a bid of nullo. What surprised them at first was the avidity with which the public took to the notion of tax reduction. The Congressmen, who were at first noncommittally opposed, soon turned lukewarm, later...
...election of 50 such Congressmen (less than half the increase of the last election) would give the people a bare majority...