Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Idaho's Senator Borah attempted to instruct the Finance Committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules, Leader Watson interposed "violent" objections...
...manner in which Leader Watson led the Senate brought down upon that body a volley of editorial abuse. It was accused of perversity and pique. The Press harped upon uncomplimentary comparisons: the late great Henry Cabot Lodge would never have permitted such legislative chaos; Charles Curtis had steered a far straighter course...
...Leader Watson's troubles were not confined to the Senate, where only a minority seemed willing to follow him. In Indianapolis last week he was made a defendant in a $50,000 damage suit growing out of his alleged membership in the Ku Klux Klan...
...Washington Defendant-Leader Watson mopped his face, tried to remain "good natured...
...after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone through with a unanimous cheer, but for the fact that Congressman Burtness, anxious to make a gesture pleasing to his many constituents of Scandinavian extraction, began his resolution with a flowery...