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...votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit, Mr. La Guardia of New York, who is now trying to bait Secretary Kellogg. It was a wave of pacifism rather than any great love of President Coolidge which brought these votes into the fold...
...requested, by Representative La Guardia of New York, to ask Secretary Kellogg to inform it of the origin of an Associated Press despatch which was allegedly inspired by some one in the State Department. The despatch talked of a "Mexican-fostered bolshevist hegemony intervening between the U. S. and the Panama Canal...
...trains, the owner of a comfortable supply of bond coupons, the husband of a charming wife, and a thrice elected member of the U. S. House of Representatives. In the House there are two ways to attain fame. One either has to be a character like Wet Representative La Guardia who has spent all summer trying to be arrested, or Dry Representative Upshaw, who sees hellfire in every drink; or else be a leader like Speaker Nicholas Longworth or Representatives Burton, Garrett and Madden, who are known by "the boys." Representative Mills is distinctly in the leader category, because...
Representative La Guardia, New York's popular Italian member, spent the week trying to embarrass Mr. Andrews by "making beer with a kick" out of bottled goods purchased at the corner drug stores. The ingredients used were near-beer and a 3.76% malt tonic which Mr. Andrews had passed on last month as a legal manufacture (TIME...
...Guardia's gestures and a series of "nagging" letters from various reformers moved Mr. Andrews to write a letter to President Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. scouting the drugstore concoction as unpalatable and frankly begging "people"-i. e. the W. C. T. U. and the Anti-Saloon League-to "quit making so much disturbance about little matters and assist the government in accomplishing some big matters...