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...rising to their feet. Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903-11) spoke four times on the floor, six times in committee and four times (irregularly) from the chair. Thomas Brackett Reed (1889-91; 1895-99) spoke, according to the records, only "two or three times" from the floor whereas Charles Frederick Crisp (1891-95) spoke not at all. On March 15, 1871 Speaker James Gillespie Elaine indulged in an undignified and personal controversy with Representative Butler, also of Maine, on the House floor. Henry Clay (1811-14; 1815-20) spoke so often from the floor that he virtually used his prestige...
...Capy, winner of the 1930 Prix Severine, transplants the stolid peasants of George Sand's pastoral novels to the War-years of 1914-18 and presents them in crisp, classic profile. Madeline of the white skin, Sebastien of the shadowy mustache loved each other, planned to be married. That was before the War. The War forced first the old men, then the women to work the fields, drive wavering plough-furrows through the hard earth. Madeline's white skin and plump cheeks turn weather-brown, her muscles harden. She is admired as the finest woman in the whole village. Sebastien...
...public which is used to much political braying in the wilderness will not be surprised that Representative Crisp, of Georgia, has seen fit to introduce a bill pardoning the convicted defendants in the Massie case; but it must wonder at the state of mind which the action reflects. A pardon extended form the highest legislative body in the nation would virtually sanction the action of any person who takes the law in his own hands and commits an act of Violence. That lynching and violent personal revenge are subversive of law and order, and contrary to the spirit of modern...
...high total of lynchings to her discredit. Federal investigators of conditions have prophesied that increased construction of state highways here, bringing rural communities into closer touch with the judicial machinery, will curtail mob action. Anything destructive of the sentiment which motivates such action must be welcome. Representative Crisp's move, a step in the wrong direction, may be pleasing to his constituents. If he does not share their feeling he is a demagogue; if he does, little can be said for the type of education which Georgia afforded...
...William Julius Harris. Senator-designate Cohen is also Georgia's Democratic National committeeman. He began newspaper work on the Augusta Chronicle, served the New York World, joined the Journal itself in 1890. Outstanding candidates for the Cohen seat in the November election: Governor Russell and Congressman Charles Robert Crisp, acting chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee...