Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after calling on the President last week, shook his head lugubriously about the chances of getting such a bill through Congress. For if reorganization means anything it will reduce, not increase, the number of jobs, and new jobseekers as well as old jobholders will be around the necks of Congressmen...
...still more cock-a-hoop when a petition to impeach the President was signed by 118 Congressmen and 75,000 peasants surged into Havana, cheering Batista wildly, jeering the President and warming up toward Revolution...
...qualify for the Dictionary a U. S. citizen must have made some "original contribution to American life." On this principle many minor Revolutionary heroes and obscure Congressmen are omitted, but Volume XX contains an ample history of Samuel Stockton White (1822-79), a Philadelphia manufacturer of dental supplies who notably improved the fit of false teeth. Bridge Expert Shepard Barclay contributes biographies of his late colleagues Dr. Milton C. Work and Wilbur Cherrier ("Quick Trick") Whitehead whose maxim was: "The law of averages is God's law and you can't go very far wrong on that...
Among the chances for honest graft which come a legislator's way, few are more hallowed by time and custom than mileage allowances. U. S. Congressmen get 20? per mile for traveling between their homes and the Capitol between sessions, may collect whether they travel or not. Ohio legislators get only 3.6? per mile. Vexed perhaps by that discrepancy, Ohio's Representatives did their best to make up for it last week. Meeting for the first time since a "five-minute recess" which began July 22, the House voted to declare that it had held semiweekly "skeleton sessions...
Most important political event in the U. S. since the election of Nov. 3 took place last week at a private luncheon and caucus of 24 of Pennsylvania's 27 Democratic Congressmen in Washington's Hotel Mayflower. Host was Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Newshawks hovering about the doors of the suite waited for someone to break the news of what had happened. First to emerge was Representative J. Burrwood Daly of Philadelphia. He cut questioners short...