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...Constitutionalist. This was the kind of political oratory that the House ate up. But the big point John Rankin wanted to get across was that he opposed the federal ballot-he called it a "bobtailed monstrosity"-because it was unconstitutional. His voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus...
...practical results have followed. Another $1,886,963 of coal-tax collections goes into the U. S. Treasury. Although many a mine-union leader (and a few producers) hopes the price schedules will straighten the industry out, even they are anything but confident. To the Supreme Court, Able Constitutionalist Jackson called the act "well within the Federal power," but said, "I don't know whether it is ever going to work." Even if it survives the Court and starts to work by fall, it expires next April, can continue only by Act of Congress before that time...
Imposing silence on his own colleagues, especially upon Idaho's sonorous constitutionalist, Wild Bill Borah, was Leader McNary's hardest job. Every morning he summoned them all to the green-baize table of his caucus room and made them vow tongue-holding again. "Let the boys across the aisle do the talking," he would say, smiling dreamily as he shot his cuffs. So it was not Borah or California's Johnson or Michigan's expletive Vandenberg who took the headlines in the Court debates. It was Virginia's red-hot Glass, Montana's Wheeler...
Chattered Howland Spencer: "I like Divine's ideas. He is a great constitutionalist. ... I thought of the steamboats that will bring thousands of colored people from New York to swim in the Hudson here and have picnics on the hills, and it sort of amused me. . . . Whether we meant it or not, this really will annoy Franklin a great deal...
California Constitutionalist...