Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alleys which Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. builds each year for the event, the Congress began to assemble last fortnight. It will adjourn the third week in April, when entrance fees and admissions are redistributed in prizes of which Bowler Mensenberg is unlikely to receive any but his medal. Most Congressmen bring their own bowling balls, of lignum vitae or composition rubber, in specially tailored leather cases. Since it is easy to cheat by putting lead in the finger-holes, each ball is carefully weighed before its owner uses it to make sure it conforms to the 16-lb. standard...
...most potent appeal for public opposition was made by utility companies directly to their own security holders.* Only two major companies used paid advertising. Associated Gas & Electric, whose fantastic capital structure offers as good a reason as any for abolishing holding companies, exhorted: "Write your Congressmen!" United Gas Improvement Co., oldest public utility holding company in the U. S. (1882) and one of the soundest, published the number of institutional stockholders on its books, displayed a group of what appeared to be widows, orphans and pensioned bookkeepers under the caption: "Think it over, Uncle...
...Electric Bond & Share's 143,000 stockholders went a ten-page letter, concluding: "Action by Congress is imminent. . . . You may wish to telegraph or write to your Senators and Congressmen." In the same dignified vein Commonwealth & Southern wrote: "We have no objection to reasonable regulation which will prevent the recurrence of any alleged abuses of the past. . . . The present bill, however, is aimed to control and kill-not to regulate and cure. . . . The passage of this bill can only be prevented by an aroused and indignant public sentiment. We hope you, both as a security holder...
...last week, as a result of the utilities' appeal, Congressmen were receiving more telegrams and letters on the Wheeler-Rayburn bill than on any other pending legislation. Missouri's Senator Clark declared that one day's mail swamped him with 6,000 protests. It was estimated that at least 500,000 citizens had urged their representatives to kill or modify the bill. The campaign's effect was apparent not only in the coatrooms of the Capitol but within the Administration. Chairman Sam Rayburn of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee began to grumble about "propaganda" long...
...President Chester A. Arthur left the White House, stepped into his carriage, rolled around to Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with the popping of champagne corks, heavy...