Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make silver producers rich by raising silver prices. No different from any other raid on the Treasury, this attack is led by Congressmen from Nevada, Colorado. Arizona and Utah...
...investigation by the Naval Affairs Committee. The Committee heard Goodyear-Zeppelin officials and Navy inspectors call the charges absurd. As a final gesture, the Committee set put to take a ride in the Akron. While the ship was being walked out of the dock before the Congressmen's eyes, a perverse wind dashed the Akron's tail against the ground, disabling her for weeks. Nevertheless, the Committee gave the ship a clean bill of health, but not without minority utterances by Representatives McClintic and Patrick J. Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels...
...desire of the average Congressman to be helpful in time of crisis. And where this desire was weak or the Congressman's honest convictions obstructive, President Roosevelt held behind his back the most puissant of political weapons- Patronage, the thousands & thousands of Federal jobs the distribution of which Congressmen may propose, the President dispose...
Both Your Houses (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer) is high propagandist art. Playwright Anderson (Saturday's Children, Elizabeth the Queen) bases his tract on an heroic premise : that all save one of the nation's 435 Congressmen are crooked. The honest one is a young school-teacher from Nevada named Allan McClean (Shepperd Strudwick), junior member of the House Appropriations Committee...
...master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War's begun and school is done." Five signers of the Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late great Charles William Eliot. Other Boston Latin pupils: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Graham Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Orator Edward Everett...