Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the results were announced, Congressmen Longworth (Republican Floor Leader), Garrett (Democratic Floor Leader), Madden (Chairman of the Appropriations Committee) and Cooper escorted Mr. Gillett to the Chair...
...League (Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Director) is making a concerted effort for the repeal of the sections of the Federal obscenity laws referring to contraceptive measures. In the short session of the last Congress a bill to accomplish this was introduced by Senator Cummins and Representative Kissel. Although many Congressmen, privately polled, approved the bill, it never reached the floor of the Houses, but died in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Knute Nelson, the Chairman of that Committee and a strong opponent of the measure, has since died, as has Senator Dillingham, next in seniority. Senator Brandegee (of Connecticut...
Education. Even Congressmen con-sider it important...
...more than a realization that a democratic heart can beat under silks and ribbands, it is necessary to obtain efficiency in American diplomatic circles. It seems self-evident that ambassadors should be selected upon the basis of ability and experience. No effective reform, however, can be instituted until Congressmen realize the value of a trained diplomatic service. Perhaps the failure of the Versailles treaty will point the moral, for it was definitely a pact written by politicians who had to arrange the provisions to humor their constituencies. The first improvement should be the raising of diplomats' salaries to the point...
Harvard University has a Republican Club with an Executive Committee of Alumni that bears some famous names: Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, '71; Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., '09; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eliot Wadsworth, '98; Louis A. Coolidge, '83, not to mention five Congressmen and the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Other members are Amory Houghton, '21 (son of Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador to Germany), and Henry Cabot Lodge, 2nd, '24 (grandson of the Senator). The undergraduate membership of the club...