Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ceremoniously he swung open the main chamber portal to admit big amiable Maurice Latta, White House clerk. Clerk Latta bowed low from the waist, handed in a paper, bowed low again, vanished. Representatives flocked excitedly into the House, filled its curved rows of black seats. Speaker Longworth drew himself up importantly in his high chair. Everything became quiet. A clerk on the rostrum cleared his throat, began to read the White House document...
...clerk concluded, Floor Leader Tilson led a splattering of Republican applause. Cries of "Vote! Vote!'' tilled the air. Speaker Longworth repeated the ancient ritual: "The question is. will the House on reconsideration agree to pass the bill, the objections of the President to the contrary not with-standing...
...arrange for party organization of the next House in which, at most, they have a paper-thin majority of two votes. From the meeting 18 Republicans, including five regulars from Kansas, deliberately absented themselves. Despite these defects which left it a House minority, the G. 0. P. renominated Nicholas Longworth of Ohio to be Speaker and John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut to be Majority Leader...
...control to the democracy and elevate John Nance Garner of Texas to the Speaker's dais. Eleven of them were independents from Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, who sought liberalization of the House rules as the price of party support. The other seven bolted as a protest against the Longworth leadership which had refused to bring up at the last session oil embargo legislation demanded by independent producers against the big importing companies. Representative-elect Harold McGugin announced from Topeka that he would vote Democratic on House organization- a possibility which would produce a 217-217 tie to be broken...
...Nicholas Longworth: Beethoven's Seventh Symphony...