Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge-Connnissioners. Attorney General Mitchell gave his approval to the Wickersham recommendation that U. S. Commissioners be empowered to try minor dry offenses. This suggestion raised the largest objection in Congress where many doubted its constitutionality. Wet Congressmen complained that it would deprive citizens of the right of trial by jury, that petty offenders would have either to plead guilty to a misdemeanor before a U. S. Commissioner, or, if demanding a jury trial, run the risk of a felony conviction under the Jones Law. Attorney General Mitchell called this proposal the Commission's "most important and constructive suggestion...
Remarked Agent Moncure's widow: "If Dry-voting, Wet-living Congressmen could be made to realize conditions as they are in the greatest war of all times . . . I'd face my joyless future with calm resignation...
...TIME, Jan. 6 et seq.), when some 200 Congressmen on the floor suddenly threw their heads back, clapped their knees, laughed uproariously. In silence they had heard the Coast Guard accused of "bloody murder." Loud had been their applause when speakers defended the service and its law-enforcing methods. But what now struck them as funny was an explanation of why Coast Guardsmen drink the liquor they seize in the service of their country. The explainer was Representative Car roll L. Beedy of Maine, a consistent dry upon whose bald head Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, the Coast Guard...
...document room, tucked away behind corridors, was hard to reach. Firefighters scaled the walls, fought the flames downward through the roof. Cameramen's flashlights added to the radiance of the scene. Senators. Congressmen, Justices of the Supreme Court hustled "up the hill" from dinner to see their workshop burn...
...Islands loose and thereby put their sugar production outside the U. S. tariff wall. Their amendments were defeated, but the agitation for getting rid of the Philippines to reduce agricultural competition by no means subsided. U. S. husbandmen producing vegetable oils warmed to the idea of Philippine independence. Their Congressmen lustily cheered the proposal last month in the House...