Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina-only Civil War veteran in House, 87 years old. Was a major in Lee's army, wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Snow-white hair and beard, stooped shoulders, almost blind, a fine face. The House simply adores him. He rarely speaks. He is a small man in stature. A secretary conducts...
...Haven, Conn., worked his way through Yale and was graduated the same year (1891) that affluent young "Nick" Longworth emerged from Harvard. A tall, bony Yank, he went to the Spanish War, returned to practice law, worked to the top of his Legislature, reached Congress in 1909. His face is lined like bark, but he does not bite. Conservative, shrewd, popular with serious men, he has cast a long shadow at national conventions...
Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach, smartly dressed, ruddy face, sour externally, pleasant internally, is a banking, realty and lumber tycoon of Atlantic City, N. J. A fine mixer and fixer, he is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends. Much of the practical brains of the Ways & Means Committee (taxes, tariff) repose within his iron-grey head...
Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
Lester Jesse Dickinson, Iowa born & bred, white hair, tanned, smiling face, clear of eye and speech, is a graduate and trustee of Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, la.) and is, with Iowa's Haugen, the voice of the Farm Bloc...