Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats. For at heart the biggest bloc of Democrats still prefers states' rights to centralization of power. Last week's debate on the anti-lynching bill reminded them again. The slowing down of legislation in the 74th Congress can be traced to the unwillingness of Democratic Congressmen to vote the New Deal such power as the AAAmendments...
...Congressional delay, caused by an unwieldy party majority, lax leadership and the customary rebelliousness of Congressmen at Presidential midterm...
...once Father Parsons protested to NBC, which offered a number of explanations to the effect that someone should have been more vigilant. Father Parsons protested to the Federal Communications Commission, which started the motions of a routine investigation. Sixteen Catholic & non-Catholic Congressmen excitedly demanded that the Commission summarily revoke the licenses of all stations that broadcast the Mexican program...
...bill which would place it ahead of the Lewis measure upon the House calendar. Mr. Lewis protested against this attempt to rob him of his legislative rights. But the bill that was before the House last week had been rewritten in committee, given a new number and christened "Doughton." Congressmen wondered whether Representative Lewis would be embittered and oppose the measure when he marched down into the House well to make a speech...
Oklahoma also furnished Speaker Byrns with Josh Lee. Literally Joshua Bryan Lee, his name like those of other Oklahoma Congressmen is written short on the ballot but his words are long extended, for he was the "national collegiate oratorical champion" in 1916. Something of a poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...