Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hysterical exhibition of peanut politics in Washington has unquestionably contributed its thunderhead to the previously clear horizon. A group of radicals are dictating the tax measures of the country, and the Mellon Bill has seemingly been sidetracked. Senators and Congressmen are vastly interested in "putting themselves on record" and in putting their opponents in a hole. After Easter, Presidential politics will probably inject an even greater element of uncertainty into the business situation...
...American business men want to start immediate competition against Americanized Italian advertising methods, which might affect their foreign trade, they can do so here at home by looking well to the laws that some congressmen would enact in spite of the sagacious protestations of the Secretary of State. F. E. LA CAUZA...
...Japanese, the Japanese Government will doubtless abrogate this agreement, and increased smuggling of Japanese might result. Mr. Hughes suggested that it would be wiser, and actually do more to prevent Japanese immigration to include Japan under the regular quota, which would give it only 246 immigrants annually. Pacific Coast congressmen opposed Mr. Hughes' suggestion...
Representative John Jacob Rogers canvassed Congressmen. He despaired of support. The Polar adventure seemed doomed...
...before and after the time Senator Sumner was eained many an exciting scene has been enacted within this august body by radical and conservative alike. Flying off the handle is ingrained in human nature and until evolution has evolved a race of intellectual and moral supermen, Congressmen and senators will continue at times to descend to the plane of "us mortals...