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Sirs: The undersigned readers of TIME and residents of Montana, have enjoyed your fair and unbiased reviews of the records of various Congressmen, and will appreciate it if you will in due course of time give the record of our famous Senator T. J. Walsh...
Regular Republican voters in North Dakota-once a breeding ground for political insurgency and the Non-Partisan League-went to the primary polls last week and renominated their three Congressmen: Olger B. Burtness (First District) Thomas Hall (Second District), James Herbert Sinclair (Third District...
...impressed were Congressmen that the bill to purchase the Incunabula passed the House without a dissenting vote. In the Senate, Massachusetts' Gillett was the only possible obstacle. He said: "Great museums and libraries and collections of pictures and jewels have in the past been purchased by monarchs, who have thereby made their cities celebrated. . . . In this country that has always been left to private individuals. . . . But I have no doubt this expenditure will not only give us some of the rarest and most splendid books in the world but will also stimulate prospective donors. . . . And so, although I think...
...said he would (TIME, June 23), President Hoover last week signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. To write the necessary 13 brief words he used six gold pens, which he presented to the conferees on the bill: Senators Smoot, Watson, Shortridge, and Congressmen Hawley, Treadway, Bacharach. During the ceremony, from which photographers, newsgatherers and cinemen were excluded, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, four of the conferees, Collector of Customs Francis X. A. Eble and the President's three private secretaries, stood by at solemn attention...
...majority of about 70. The vote came at 4 p. m. and the majority was 69 (222 to 153). As the engrossed copy of the bill was handed up to him, Speaker Longworth declared: "The Chair takes great pleasure in signing this bill." Almost in a body, Republican Congressmen rose and cheered...