Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between political avowal and personal habits in the House and Senate reaches its climax in the drinking Dry. To find out precisely what Congress thinks about Prohibition, as distinguished from what it does, became the journalistic assignment of William H. Crawford, free lance. Selecting at random 200 Senators and Congressmen, half Republican, half Democratic, he wormed out of each in confidence his "real senti-ments." In the April Cosmopolitan ap- peared last week the results (but with no names mentioned) of Mr. Crawford's Prohibition poll. Major findings...
...belonging to the nephew though Mr. Denison did not say so) arrived at the House Office Building. Declared Defendant Denison: "I never bought any liquor in Panama. Why, I wouldn't know what to do with it because I'm not a drinking man." Illinois' Senator Glenn and four Congressmen took the stand to swear to his reputation for "sobriety, peace and good order." Exclaimed the Government prosecutor of the Denison defense: "A fine fairy tale...
...various times your pages have contained interesting little sketches of Senators and Congressmen and their records...
...Union Soviet Congressmen rose to their feet when Comrade Molotov entered, as the House of Lords rises to King George. They then sat down upon red plush seats provided by Tsar Nicholas II who liked red plush. His Imperial Majesty refurnished the Moscow Opera House wherein the Red Congress meets...
...appeared relative to the proposed appointment of Ernest A. Michel as Federal Judge in Minnesota. This article does a very grave injustice to one of the State's outstanding lawyers (not an ambulance chaser) who is the choice of both U.S. Senators, every one of the ten Minnesota Congressmen, and who has received a more overwhelming indorsement than anyone who has ever aspired to such a position. Not only is your article incorrect; but it is, in my opinion, clearly libelous...