Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Halfway down the Capitol corridor, the Supreme Court took up its reading of decisions. At the corridor's end, House members were still milling in their chamber, for Speaker Longworth was late. The women of the House, all in black or grey, most of them wearing orchids, held reception, surrounded by clamoring...
Three days after election Democratic House Leader John Nance Garner of Texas received that telegram. His red cowboy face twisted up into an even redder knot of merriment. "N. L." was, of course, his great & good friend Nicholas Longworth. Republican Speaker of the House. The "car" was the dark blue Packard limousine (1928 model) assigned by the Government to the House's presiding officer. Because the car would pass to him if the Democrats should control the House and elect him Speaker, Congressman Garner had often joshed Speaker Longworth about "our car." To Speaker Longworth he telegraphed this reply...
...would ride officially in the Speaker's limousine after March 4, 1931 neither Republican Longworth nor Democrat Garner nor anyone else knew for sure because the elections which made the 7 2nd Congress had failed to produce an incontestable House ma jority (218 seats) for either party. As the first hasty ballot-count came to an end throughout the land, it appeared that the voters had achieved that rarest of results, a numerically exact tie in the House. The balance was hardly less close in the Senate where the Vice President's vote might be invoked to break a deadlock...
...should by any remote possibility remain unbroken when that body meets next year, upon 34-year-old Farmer-Labor Representative Paul John Kvale of Benson, Minn, would fall a tremendous decision. He would be a sort of political traffic cop, for his all-important vote could put either Republican Longworth or Democrat Garner into the Speaker's automobile. War veteran, county newspaper editor, secretary to his late father, Representative Ole John Kvale who succeeded Andrew J. Volstead in the House only to be burned to death last year in a summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23, 1929), young Representative Kvale spoke...
Because of the even balance of Republican and Democratic strength, neither side was overeager to take the large responsibility and small authority of control. Soberly declared Democratic Leader Garner: "If Longworth is re-elected Speaker he knows any time I want to I can make trouble for him and if I should be elected he knows he can do the same...