Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brought startled newshawks scurrying in from the halls when it rejected with one of the loudest viva voce votes on record, a proposal by Tennessee's John Ridley Mitchell to abolish Congressmen's mileage allowance. Having also voted down Congressman Mitchell's amendment forbidding Congressmen to hire their relatives as clerks, it promptly passed a $20,357,165 legislative supply bill, up $886,134 from the current year's appropriation for Congress' upkeep...
...street cars (fare 10?) whose routes are so confused by the city's intricate plan as to be practically unintelligible to a stranger. Rich visitors sometimes tip as much as the fare; less affluent visitors tip 10$; old Washingtonians, newshawks, Senators tip 5^; government clerks, rustics and Congressmen often tip nothing. However, if last week's farmers did not tip they paid well, for many a taxi driver took advantage of their ignorance to make them pay 20? apiece instead of 20 a trip. *On their side, the enthusiastic rustics had so intoxicated the President that...
Beset with rumors that President Roosevelt would not seriously object if his proposed veto of the Patman "Green-back" Bill were over-ridden by the Senate, those Congressmen who would make political wampum of the bonus question are left straddling the proverbial fence. In view of recent developments in Washington their confusion can well be appreciated. Vice-president Garner, and others close to the President, are reported to be in favor of the bonus bill. Mr. Garner has expressed the opinion that currency inflation--which the Pat-man Bill would effect--would at this time be advantageous to the country...
...hearted Virginians crowned Miss Nella Veverka, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Minister to the U. S., queen of the Shenandoah Valley apple blossom festival, and light-hearted Tennesseans made ready for Memphis' annual Cotton Carnival with William Nedy Mallory (All America football captain of Yale,1924) as King. But Congressmen were less lighthearted. They could see in their minds' eyes Harry Byrd handing them a ballot reading...
...biggest perpetual-motion men of recent years turned up his nose at the Patent Office. Garabed T. K. Giragossian went directly to Congress and enthralled Congressmen for seven years (1917-24) with stories of how the Garabed Free Energy Generator would save the U.S. a $30,000,000,000 annual power bill, win the War, redeem the Sahara, rescue Mankind from the curse of the steam engine, crime and insanity. Mr. Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress...