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...invited to speak at a dinner given in Washington, D. C., by the Sons of the American Revolution to honor the 197th anniversary of the birth of Edmund Burke. It was a solemn occasion. Starched faces and haughty shirtfronts hedged the board. Over the coffee cups, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia recited fine phrases in praise of Burke. Rupert Hughes got up. He passed quickly from the career of Burke to that of George Washington...
Republican Senator Fess of Ohio objected to the Dawes plan for Senate reform because it might increase the amount of hasty legislation, but said he would favor a rule requiring a Senator to "stick to his subject." Republican Senator Moses flatly stated: "The Senate will not revise its rules...
Married. Lowell Fess, son of Simeon D. Fess (junior U.S. Senator from Ohio) to Miss Marguerite Loveless of Washington, D.C., secretly, three months ago; at Greenup...
Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...
...speech, he retorted that he would not allow anyone to dictate legislation; that he had no apology to make for voting for the Pension Bill and certainly none for the vote against the President's veto, so he voted accordingly. We are asking our friends to reread Mr. Fess's speech and then consider how a man who could make such a speech could act in such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story of the critic who went by request to hear a certain politician make a speech. "Well...