Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition were as blind-furious as some U. S. Senators and Congressmen would be if President Hoover arose and queried...
...Puzzled Congressmen were therefore in a dilemma-between the veterans and the financiers. They seemed most likely last week to take the compromise measure, that of increasing the loan value of the certificates...
William Henry McMaster of South Dakota, who proposed putting Senators and Congressmen in front-line trenches in case of war. A good impersonal debater, he plays golf, likes baseball games, keeps friendly with all factions...
Passed a bill permitting Congressmen and Senators to frank more than four pounds of stationery...
...repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League said he was "threshing old straw." Dry Congressmen declared that he was trying to curry political favor-a declaration followed immediately by reports that New Jersey Republicans were already considering him as a candidate for governor. Judge Clark promptly declared he would "not consider" any political offers. Enforcement. Prohibition suffered no change as a result of the Clark decision...