Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guard boss, National Committeeman for Kansas, successfully supported Nominee Haucke. Vice President Curtis, partial to the Mulvane-Haucke wing of the party, journeyed to Topeka to cast his primary ballot, then hurried east to enjoy the social atmosphere of Newport, R. I. Missouri. With no serious contests all 16 Congressmen (ten Republicans, six Democrats) were renominated...
...retain his seat Senator Allen must beat George McGill, Wichita Democrat, in November. All incumbent Congressmen seeking re-election were renominated. Governor Reed, Farm Board critic, good Allen friend, was defeated for Republican renomination by Frank ("Chief") Haucke (pronounced How-kee), 36, bachelor, famed Cornell footballer, A. E. F. sergeant, onetime Kansas commander of the American Legion...
...Congress fails to vote reapportionment in the next short session, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to compute the changes in State representation on the basis of the new census and certify the result to the Clerk of the House who will notify each Governor how many Congressmen his State may send to Washington after 1932. It would then be up to the Legislatures to redistrict their individual States to accord with any change in their representative strength in the House...
Four U. S. Congressmen were observed last week peering into two children's camps on the Hudson River. They were four-fifths of the special House committee led by New York's big young Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr., authorized to discover evidence of revolutionary activities by the Russian Soviet in the U. S. Witnesses at their Manhattan hearings had told them they might see Red flags, hear juvenile profanity at the Communist-organized children's summer camps (TIME, July 28). Many a young Red nose was thumbed at them, many a hiss and boo was heard, but there were...
...Mace. Perhaps because no Congressman ever raped it, few U. S. citizens know that the House of Representatives has its distinctive Mace, topped by a silver American Eagle rampant. Should two Congressmen quarrel in the House, Sergeant-at-Arms J. G. Rodgers or his assistant would instantly snatch the Mace from its pedestal at the right of Speaker Longworth's chair and advance upon the hotheads. Such quarrels instantly and almost invariably cool. Probably apocryphal is the story that a Congress man once refused to cool, whereupon the quick-witted Sergeant-at-Arms placed the silver eagle's beak within...