Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...census of 1930, and for reapportioning the representation in the House. The Constitution calls fo a reapportionment every ten years. There has been none now in nearly 20 years with the result that, for example, California with a population of 4,433,000 (1927 estimate) has eleven Congressmen and Wisconsin with a population of 2,918,000 also has eleven Congressmen...
...Senate floor were so many people Boris couldn't count them all. The Senators were packed on the east side, the Congressmen on the west. Round and about were Ambassadors, Cabinet members, Generals, Admirals, everybody who could squeeze in. The cutaway was standard gear except for the military officers and foreign representatives who vied to outglitter one another with gold and brass...
...green days of the Republic, this Constitutional rite was. a solemn thing, freighted with great uncertainty. Last week's vote-counting became an occasion for 40 minutes of horselaughs and whoopee. The outward forms, the ancient lines and cues, seemed as comical to those Congressmen who bothered to attend, as would have been the spectacle of a gentleman in knee breeches and powdered wig riding down Pennsylvania Avenue in a sulky...
...Money, Anti-Money. It is difficult to say what Congressmen might speak for the money power, especially in an argument which lists money against money. Ogden Livingston Mills and James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young...
...shows the Republican leaders, Tammany Hall Congressmen, Philadelphia machine Congressmen, Mellon-Pittsburgh machine Congressmen, Thompson [Chicago] machine Congressmen and Representatives from other great cities do not believe in enforcing the prohibition...