Word: congressmen
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Copies of this statement will be circulated as petitions in the form of an open letter to President Roosevelt, and the League will endeavor to get as many signatures on the letter as possible. Providing that enough people sign, facsimiles of the petitions will probably be forwarded to several Congressmen and Senators...
...your Radio section, TIME, Feb. 17, article entitled "Misinformation, Please," we see that the most embarrassing question in the new radio program No Politics was the congressmen's inability to identify James K. Polk, John W. Davis and Joseph Varnum as onetime Speakers of the U. S. House of Representatives. Then at the top of this article you have a picture of John W. Davis captioned "Embarrassing Mr. Davis." Your photograph is a photograph of John William Davis, 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate. John Wesley Davis was Speaker of the House during the "29th Congress (1845-47). -HENRY STONER...
...TIME, embarrassed, was hoodwinked like the Congressmen by the bare middle initial in the original question...
...South Africa, Canada. Pending a Constitutional Convention, Author Streit would set up an Inter-Continental Congress with one representative for each member democracy, plus an additional representative for every 5,000,000 inhabitants. (The U. S. would have 27 votes, the remainder 22.) Until direct elections of intercontinental congressmen could be arranged, the President could appoint them, with Congressional approval, or let Congress pick them from a list of Presidential recommendations. (Streit suggests Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, James M. Cox, asks readers to suggest other names.) This Union would be empowered to handle foreign relations, establish a common currency, common...
...Excess Profits Tax (TIME, Oct. 14)-a jerry-built construction job which everyone knew would show many a chink, leak and missing windowpane when the March 15 wind started blowing. Working too fast, Congress wound up with a 50-page tax bill which not even the experts understood. The Congressmen themselves were reduced to giggling over it like schoolboys unable to hide any longer the fact that they did not know their lesson...