Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause to whoop gaily. Normally Maine is Republican by 25,000 votes or more. Since the Civil War only two Democratic governors have been elected, in 1880 and in 1914. This week, with a close, heavy vote, the Democrats sent in a governor and two out of three Congressmen...
...Order of Moose in 1906 with a contract that gave him all initiation fees for his promotion work. The order's orphanage at Mooseheart, Ill. was his special charity. When he became Secretary of Labor in 1921, he talked Moose to all- comers, signed up Senators and Congressmen. Smart politicians took care to join the Secretary's order when they wanted favors at the Labor Department. When Moose Davis resigned from the Cabinet in 1930 to take a Senate seat, he sold his promotion contract to other members of the order for a handsome profit. Last week...
...Kansas City, to Congressmen investigating Government interference in private business, Mrs. Ida Watkins, weather-beaten "Wheat Queen" of Sublette, Kan., pulled off her hat. bared a brawny, toil-hardened arm. shouted: "I just want to kick the devil out of the Farm Board. ... I draw the line on the doggone, damnable Government interference with our affairs...
Give up Colonies? Assistant U. S. Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. officially stated that ''the American Government is pleased," but Congressmen & Senators who spoke out on the Lausanne settlement last week mostly spoke against cancelling another cent of the nine billions which Europe owes the U. S. in War Debts. Such potent voices as those of Senator Borah (Rep.) and Senator Glass (Dem.) were not heard last week. The Senate tabled and ignored a resolution by Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore (Dem.) demanding whether "the European Powers which are indebted to the United States...
...Henry Tete, secretary of the Louisiana Osteopaths' Association, used all his weighty influence. From Washington his good friends & patients Congressmen Joachim Octave Fernandez and Paul Herbert Maloney wired protests to the committee. The committee unanimously recommended passage of the restrictions...