Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week some 2,000,000 typical U. S. citizens marched to the polls in ten State primary elections to strike an X for their favorite Congressmen, Governors, lesser State officials. Result was an average vote, some hot local contests, a few new faces here and there, a disinclination to change horses. Highlights...
Taking careful aim and with obvious satisfaction, Beverly Vincent planted a good hard right, smack! It staggered, and silenced, Martin Sweeney. Though Congressmen not infrequently threaten one another and have been known to throw bound copies of the Record* when vexed, ancient Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnot said it was the best blow he had heard in his 50 years in the House...
Died. George N. Seger, 74, dean of New Jersey Congressmen (nine terms); of heart disease; in Washington...
Into the grand ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week ambled two cows, two horses, five sheep, seven dogs, a covey of Congressmen. At the far end of the ballroom a tier of seats was jammed with spectators. On the sawdust-sprinkled floor, a man in white moved into a spotlight to pour several gallons of Epsom salts through a tube into a cow's stomach. The show was no circus, but a serious scientific meeting-one of the clinical sessions of the American Veterinary Association's annual convention...
...funds to run his total this year up to $2,295,000,000. The Navy's Rear Admiral John Henry Towers had 1,746 useful aircraft on hand, 2,489 on order, money for 1,478 more, now asked $550,000,000 for 4,028 additional planes. Congressmen logically wanted to know why the money already voted had not been contracted, how the Army and Navy expected to use any more...