Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibition laws and sentenced to two years in prison. The first public intimation that he was involved in such a case came when a Grand Jury in Chicago, in returning indictments for alleged Veterans' Bureau frauds, mentioned, as a sort of aside, that the cases of two Congressmen ought to be looked into (TIME March 10, 17). Mr. Langley and four others were indicted for a supposed conspiracy formed in 1921 to remove illegally 1,400 cases of whiskey from a Kentucky distillery. Two of the defendants turned state's evidence and accused Langley. The Congressman stoutly maintained...
Representative John Joseph Kindred of New York was summoned South. Eight monkeys had escaped from his monkey farm. He is a doctor, is raising monkeys purely for experimental purposes in gland transplanting. Congressmen laughed, but Dr. Kindred, like Ponce de Léon set out for Florida...
Dates in the past most Congressmen are content to leave to historians, but they insist in having their say concerning future dates. A controversy came to a head over a date which the House...
...veterans of 1812.¶ Passed a resolution authorizing a joint Congressional Committee to investigate land grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. ¶ Considered the Department of Agriculture appropriation bill and passed it carrying $57,000,000, but without a provision for free seeds to be distributed by Congressmen...
What would he say to the passage of the Immigration Bill? Would he take his cue from Japanese Ambassador Hanihara (TIME, April 21, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and make "veiled threats?" Would he castigate the U. S. Congressmen for their unfeeling attitude toward thousands of expectant Italians? Would he discourse upon the injured dignity of his country? He was known to be deeply and personally interested in Italian immigration to the U. S., he had even worked out a selective system, whereby Italian farm laborers would be sent from Italy to supply the shortage...