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Died. James Ambrose Gallivan, 61, U. S. Representative from Massachusetts; following a heart attack; in Arlington, Mass. A South Boston Democrat, Representative Gallivan was elected to the House in 1914, and, except for a two-year interval (1921-23), was re-elected each term. Picturesque of language, he packed the galleries when he spoke. Colleagues on both sides of the aisle mourned...
...House of Representatives, the loud one was Representative James A. Gallivan of Massachusetts, whose specialty is alliterative abuse. Quoth he at the beginning of last week: ". . . Prohibition, its proconsuls, parasites, and plug-uglies . .,. has even reserved to itself and its allies a monopoly of murder-murder without penalty. The right to murder Americans abroad without fear or favor, it delegates to bandit organizations; the right to murder Americans at home by poisonous liquors remains with the Anti-Saloon League and its allied bootleggers, and the right to wreck and drown American sailors and shoot up foreign seamen goes...
...shouted James A. Gallivan, Massachusetts Democrat, after the reading of the Deficiency Bill. Later he was unabashed by a report from Charge d'Affaires Whitehouse in Paris, denying the alleged spying on Mayor Walker of New York City, whom Mr. Gallivan, a cunning clown, denied having named by name. The outburst served merely to notify the 70th Congress that jocose Mr. Gallivan, who little resembles most Harvard men of the '80's, was again on hand with his alliterative eloquence, his unquenchable Americanism...
...police, but they did not arrive until after Hattie Pitts of the McKendree Methodist Church lifted her hands and her voice in prayer, shrieked: "O Lord, O Jesus, have mercy on these men." The roughnecks ceased their buffeting. This, the third fistibuster in Congress within a week, caused Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts to pass around among his friends a resolution providing that all future bouts be conducted in Statuary Hall "under the paternal eyes of the Fathers of the Republic," with Dry Representative Upshaw, who has failed of re-election to the next Congress, as referee. "I think these bouts...
Massachusetts--Abram Piatt Andrew. A.M. '95, Ph.D. '00; M. C. 1921--. Frederick William Dallinger, '93, LL.B. '97; M. C. 1915-25, 1927--. Louis Adams Frothingham. '93, LL.B. '96; M. C. 1921--. James Ambrose Gallivan, '88; M. C. 1914-1921. 1923--. Robert Luce, '82; M. C. 1919--. George Russell Stobbs, '99, LL.B. '02; M. C. 1925--. George Holden Tinkham...