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...second lecture by an outside authority will be given on Monday, December 4, when Ex-Congressman Edward M. Bassett of New York will speak on "Limiting the Heights of Buildings through zoning. Mr. Bassett is internationally known as a zoning authority...
...outlaw the gold payment clause in all public and private debt contracts; sent it to the President. ¶ Confirmed (56-10-21) the nomination of Kansas' Guy Tresillian Helvering to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. He was hotly opposed by Republicans on the ground that as an ex-Congressman he had wangled many a tax case out of the Treasury. Michigan's Couzens denounced him as a man of "shifty eyes and shifty methods." Kansas' Senator Capper declared that, though always opposed to him politically, he thought Appointee Helver-ing was an honest man. ¶ Passed...
...fund and thereafter, upon his candidate's election to the White House, is rewarded with an Ambassadorship, nobody seriously accuses him of having bribed the President of the U. S. to obtain a good fat job. But because he shuffled this standardized political procedure into an illegitimate pattern an ex-Congressman of Indiana last week stood convicted in Federal court of bribery and job-selling. His conviction loomed as a general warning to all other Congressmen to play the patronage game according to the rules...
Last summer while in Jefferson City, Mo., I visited for a moment with ex-Congressman Dorsey W. Shackleford, whose secretary I was during his last few years in Washington. Quite innocently, I mentioned that I had driven about the country a good deal and how wonderful I considered the country's highways...
...this point, the ex-Congressman, who is now an old man, suddenly came to life. ''You and I did that," said he, "though few people may remember that...