Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the approval of a native parliament. Thus if the inhabitants are citizens of anything it is the Navy, not the U. S. By Federal law they are established neither as subjects of, nor as aliens to, the U. S. Long have they wished it were otherwise. But puzzled Congressmen, unfamiliar with these tiny dots on maps of the Pacific, have not known what to do about the Samoans' petitions for a change...
Last week, however, a commission of Congressmen headed by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham, chairman of the Territories & Insular Affairs Committee, were aboard the 7,05O-ton cruiser Omaha en route from Honolulu to Pago Pago to consider at first hand the conflicting petitions and reports which Congress has received. While at Honolulu they had held sessions, heard much testimony from Samoans and others...
...guts" of Prohibition is one place to which potent Dry Senators and Congressmen do not want to see the Commission go. But Commissioner Mackintosh, a Dry himself, did not propose to allow his colleagues to weasel on "enforcement" and pass up the larger issue of the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Drys last week cried out in sharp protest against any such thoroughgoing program of investigation as he advocated...
Kinds of Wetness. Persons rather than policies define the degrees of Wetness. The vociferous militant Wet is represented by such Senators as Maryland's Tydings, Wisconsin's Elaine, such Congressmen as New York's LaGuardia, Michigan's Clancy. Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck typifies the Constitutional Wet who often subordinates his legal convictions to party loyalty. Silent Wets biding their time to strike a blow are Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, Connecticut's Senator Bingham, Pennsylvania's Congressman Graham. New York's Senator Copeland represents the Wet from political expedience who is at heart a Dry. Representative Hamilton...
...vote was bushy-browed Democratic Senator William Julius Harris over John Marshall Slaton. One issue of their campaign was the fact that 15 years ago Mr. Slaton, as Governor, had commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank, later lynched. Eleven of the State's Congressmen were renominated while the twelfth, Representative Thomas Montgomery Bell, was defeated by Judge John Woods. A run-off primary was necessary to decide the gubernatorial nomination...