Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business centre of Havana, developed them with streets, sewers, watermains; that one Pedro Gomez Mena. in connivance with then President Zayas of Cuba, seized the land, formed Gomez Mena Land Co.; that Cuban courts had upheld the Barlow titles; that officers of the land company as Cuban Congressmen were immune to arrest and prosecution; that therefore the court orders against them could not be executed...
Five States have Representatives-at-large because their small populations do not legally support more than one House member.* Only one State, Illinois, has two Representatives-at-large, in addition to 25 regular Congressmen tucked away in their own districts, because it is gerrymandered and does not choose to carve out two new districts, at the risk of upsetting Republican preponderance, to meet its exact allowance of House representation. Illinois' Representatives-at-large are sort of Class B Senators: their pay is the same and they are chosen by the same State-wide electorate. But on the House floor...
...President Ortiz Rubio outlined his policies, explained how dear to the United States of Mexico are the United States of America, and the ceremony was over. A dapper young man in a neat black suit by the name of Daniel Flores left the stadium in disgust. Cameramen tripped over Congressmen in their efforts to snap President Ortiz Rubio publicly kissing ex-President Fortes Gil. Telegraphers in the press section clicked wordy comment on the stability of Mexico's new government, wired that at last a Mexican President had been inaugurated without bloodshed or attempted assassination...
Last week 226 Congressmen roused themselves to attention in the House when tall, thick-shouldered Representative Franklin William Fort of New Jersey strode out into the well and began to deliver an hour-long speech on Prohibition. On their little stools in the gallery, newsmen bent forward intently to follow his words. Well did they know that Mr. Fort is a close personal friend of President Hoover. Until last week he was secretary of the Republican National Committee (see p. 16). Perhaps he might throw new light on the President's Prohibition views...
...Mellon picked up his tiny cigar, puffed it nervously. He would have liked to depart at that point. But Congressmen do not often get a chance to cross-question the Secretary of the Treasury and when they do they make the most...