Word: gillett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress: He served one complete term (1919-1925) in the Senate. Seeking re-election in 1924 he was defeated by a narrow margin (20,000 votes) by onetime House Speaker Frederick Gillett in the Coolidge landslide. His revenge came in 1926 when he ousted from a Senate seat William Morgan Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strongly-endorsed Coolidge friend. Last year he was again reelected, helping materially to carry Massachusetts for Nominee Smith. He voted for Tax Reduction (1928), Flood Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), the Cruiser Construction Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928) and Reapportionment (1929). He voted...
...Senate was unconvinced. One after another a half-dozen Senators arose to speak brief condemnations of Senator Bingham. Senator Gillett of Massachusetts, pleading for his Connecticut neighbor, revealed that when he was House Speaker he "frequently saw Congressmen drunk on the floor but he never "considered it necessary to censure them publicly...
...messiness of G. O. P. politics in Massachusetts is due to jealousies and backbiting between leaders and senatorial candidates. The Senate seat now occupied by white-goateed Frederick Huntington Gillett is open to the 1930 election. Aged 78, an officeholder for a half-century, he is the Senate's best contract bridge player but otherwise has left no large impress upon its history. Younger men want his place, but he has volunteered to step aside only for Citizen Calvin Coolidge...
...eager candidate for the Gillett seat in the Senate is onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller. Last week, disgusted with Committeeman Liggett's inept maneuvre, he called him a "Jonah," said he ought to be thrown "overboard...
...Royal Baking Powder already owned two-thirds of the capital stock of E. W. Gillett, Ltd., which is largest Canadian baking-powder maker...