Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge began by maintaining a sphinxlike silence as far as the public was concerned. To the Senators, Congressmen and others who conferred with him he seemed more inclined to listen than to speak...
...anonymous. The outstanding fact of this survey is that every man in the literary group smokes, and the majority of the literary women. Moreover, most of them consider its effects beneficial, and claim that their literary and imaginative powers are stimulated by it. Fifty-five per cent of the congressmen indulge, 60% of school superintendents, still more of university presidents, and 95% of financiers...
According to the Washington Armament Treaty there was some ambiguity as to whether the angles of guns could legitimately be changed. When it was believed that the British were doing so, no objection was made here, but when the British Government issued an official denial, question was raised by Congressmen and others of our right to alter our guns...
...guns because it might lead to diplomatic difficulties. From a political standpoint, at least, the move is very adroit, because it relieves the Administration of any grounds for an accusation that it had obtained an appropriation under false pretenses-an accusation which there is already evidence that certain Congressmen would make. Now Congress must decide the question at its next session...
Candidates for the best-dressed man in the 68th Congress: Senator Edward I. Edwards, militant wet, of New Jersey; Representative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, son-in-law of Roosevelt. Most Senators and Congressmen, with studied neglect, stay out of the race, or, like Senator Brookhart, Iowa farmer, they run it backwards...