Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete freedom to learn about contraceptives. Fortnight ago the House committee ?at the insistence of Massachusetts' Representative John M. McCormack (Knight of Columbus, Elk, Moose, Forester, Hibernian) ? pigeonholed Mrs. Sanger's bill. Her angry clarion stirred Birth Controllers throughout the land to telegraph their displeasure to their Congressmen last week, while the Senate committee was diffidently hearing other of her supporters. After listening to advocates of the movement the Senators postponed the hearings a week...
...larger than its cousins down South. This advantage, upon which Maine's lobster industry was built, last week threatened to ruin it. Lobstermen setting their traps for the new season with halibut, herring and codfish heads anxiously questioned one another for news from Washington, where Maine's Congressmen Wallace Humphrey White Jr. and John Edward Nelson were pressing for passage of a bill to save the ailing business...
...that size a female lobster is about six years old, has usually spawned between 50,000 and 100,000 eggs for the propagation of her race. But all other lobster States and Canada permit the taking of Qin. lobsters. To prevent the importation of oin. Canadian lobsters Congressmen White & Nelson would set 10½ in. as the minimum legal length for all lobsters entering the U. S. That Maine needs such a law is suggested by the fact that the price of lobsters dropped from 60? per Ib. three years ago to 25? last winter. It costs a Maine lobsterman...
...island-born son of a Yankee missionary, did not come spontaneously. Defense counsel had formally petitioned him for executive clemency but more potent was the pressure of mainland sentiment. In Washington Congress had seethed with legislative proposals to set the convictions aside. No less than 104 Congressmen had signed a cabled plea to Governor Judd to pardon the four prisoners. Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaiian delegate in Congress, aware of the rising political tide against his territory, likewise begged the Governor...
...this time, a car load of about 20 additional police had arrived, all armed with heavy lathis. Other members of the little group were then attacked and beaten mercilessly. There was no retaliation of any kind from the Congressmen...