Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority place on the House Ways & Means Committee. There his dexterous management of politics and finance won him a reputation as the committee's "brain." A mixer and a fixer, sporty in attire, facially ferocious but personally pleasant, grey-bristly-haired Representative Bacharach is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends and, as such, a power in House affairs...
...that it was politically necessary for the Republicans to act. Adopting the "Young Plan" of increased loans but rejecting the proposal to limit them only to needy veterans, he drafted H. R. 17054, got it by the Ways & Means Committee (17-to-4) to the House floor where Speaker Longworth helped him to pass it by a suspension of the Rules...
...Mellon letter clearly foreshadowed a Hoover veto. But upon Congress it acted as no deterrent. Speaker Longworth pronounced the Bacharach bill "sane, sensible and conservative" and "one guess as good as another" on its cost. Secretary Mellon was loudly flayed for painting too gloomy a picture, was reminded that his dire prediction about the effects of the original Bonus act in 1924 had never materialized. The Ways & Means Committee in its report on H. R. 17054 argued that "there is no way to determine accurately just what the cost 'will be." Against Secretary Mellon's "potential liability...
...Capitol steps at Washington last week tramped a delegation of 150 jobless under Communist leadership. Quietly they marched past police guards into the House corridors to petition Speaker Longworth for Unemployment insurance. He would not see them. Some of them straggled up into the House gallery. From that vantage point one Fred Kearns of Pittsburgh arose, began to shout: "I protest! I protest against the arrest of -." Over his wide-open mouth was clapped the hand of Chief Doorkeeper Bert Kennedy. Angry cries from the House floor: "Throw him out! Shut him up!" Two policemen ejected him while other Reds...
...exception was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth who, in 1924, confirmed to newsmen the rumored advent of her child. . . . When the wife of Mischa Elman was expectant in 1926, a San Francisco newspaper printed the famed violinist's photograph with the caption: FACES FATHERHOOD...