Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Indiana's Watson, the Republican leader, tried to tell Senator Heflin that the Senate could not properly pass his resolution, the Alabaman, with bellowing surprise, asked if Watson wasn't the "finest old he-horse of the Klan." Senator Watson puffed and protested. Senator Borah rebuked Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster...
...Leader Curry came down to the reception room, seated himself in the big "boss" chair of Tweed, Croker, Murphy, Olvany. "This feels good," he purred...
Congressman John Nance Garner, new minority leader of the House, last week discovered a leak, let out a warning shout. His face red with apprehension, he pointed an accusing finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were...
...Walter Runciman, backed up the Government and declared before a cheering House, "The world must realize that once Great Britain has put her name to an undertaking she will carry it through in spite of the vicissitudes of political fortune." Anxious hours in conference with prominent Laborites had convinced Leader MacDonald that as leader of the party there was but one thing for him to do. Rising late in the evening, he began by rebuking the Conservatives for insinuating that should the Labor party be returned to power they would not preserve "England's word as good...
...Eckles '32 as leader of the Harvard team delivered a four minute rebuttal for the affirmative. The other Harvard speakers were P. N. Cohen '32 and L. E. Becker...