Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best represented profession in Congress is the Law: 68 of the 96 Senators, 251 of the 435 Representatives are members of the bar. For eleven years Senator Borah has been worried by the fact that as lawyers, drawing fees from clients, Congressmen are liable to be prejudiced in enacting new legislation. As the result of long pondering he drafted a bill whereby: 1) no Congressman could accept any fee for representing any client, not only before any department of the Government (already illegal), but also in any court case in which the Government is interested; 2) any Congressman acting...
...Potomac, Japanese cherry trees were last week bursting into bloom, sign of hot weather soon to come, sign that Congress should soon wind up its lengthy session. Senator Connally of Texas, moved by these harbingers of summer, thought of being gracious: why should not a small delegation of Democratic Congressmen go down to the Union Station to meet the President returning from vacation? Senator Borah, also gracious, asked: Why should not Republicans be included? The cloak rooms buzzed. Someone had a bright idea: Why not invite the whole of Congress? Why not march down with a band? No one could...
...event, the Federal Reserve Banks would be ordered to buy the bonds and issue currency against them- thus using the printing press to turn out some $9,000,000,000 of new money to pay off farmers' mortgages. Until last week this bill reposed harmlessly in committee. Then Congressmen began to pass around an unofficial petition to bring it out on the floor. When the official petition was opened, within one day it had 139 of the necessary 145 signatures. Alarmed, Administration leaders got busy, induced 15 Congressmen to withdraw their signatures. Meantime Representative William Lemke from financially radical...
...full, a large portion of that amount under the $2,500 limitation. How the sum would be obtained the bill did not specify (probably by borrowing) but the fact that it would result in a big distribution of cash in nearly all parts of the U. S. influenced Congressmen to support it. Again a petition to discharge the bill from committee was started in the House. When only nine of the necessary 145 signatures were lacking, House leaders got together, did a parliamentary trick. They reported the bill favorably from the Banking & Currency Committee. On the crowded calendar...
Last week statesmen eyed the first straw in the political wind of 1934: the Illinois primaries. On Democratic ballots 810,000 votes were cast, on Republican ballots 755,000-the largest Democratic majority in Illinois primaries. Further corroboration of a Democratic wind: all 18 Democratic Congressmen were renominated save one who did not have the backing of the State organization. All six Republican Congressmen were also renominated save one. Socialite James Simpson Jr. of Chicago's North Shore, who alone criticized the New Deal...