Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressmen from the South. The first was Samuel Rutherford, 61, of Forsyth, Ga. He had been a Representative since 1925, was chairman of the Election Committee framing legislation to eliminate "lame duck" sessions of Congress...
Senators, Congressmen, editors, lawyers, leaders in every field vied to heap the highest praise upon the infirm old gentleman who lives in a red brick house on a Washington side street. To this outpouring, however, he paid no heed. Only when his eight colleagues on the court wrote him a solemn letter of farewell did he publicly reply...
...Beware, ye demons of a vanishing Empire! We warn officers of the British Government always to move about armed. At a signal we will kill marked officers. Congressmen [members of the Indian National Congress] do not interfere without solemn duties...
...their shoes, buckled on their swords, adjusted their trappings and went as usual to the White House on New Year's morning to mumble polite greetings and shake the hand of President Hoover. Present also at the diplomatic reception, which began at ii a. m., were a few Congressmen (notably absent: gruff old Speaker John Nance Garner), Army & Navy officers and two Negro cavalrymen who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...made all serious bankers ponder remedies carefully. John William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, has tirelessly reiterated his arguments in favor of larger banks, many branches. Last week he gloomily contemplated the ravages of Depression upon the banking system, and again pleaded with slow-to-change bankers and suspicious Congressmen for the development of branch-banking. Said he: "In brief, the purpose of the legislation recommended is to supplement our system of unit banking by permitting the stronger and better managed city banks to carry on banking operations in the surrounding rural communities by means of branch offices. . . . Our present...