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...come over & above the routine business of passing appropriations, an especially hagglesome business when the Budget is unbalanced. And before the Congress can get any of these things done, the evenly-divided House must organize itself and decide which man, of which party, shall succeed the late beloved Nicholas Longworth as Mr. Speaker...
...succeed Democrats in the 7th New York, 1st Georgia and the 20th Ohio districts. Republicans are likely to succeed Republicans in the 8th Michigan, 2nd Pennsylvania, ist Wisconsin. In the ist Ohio district lies the possibility of deadlock or Democratic victory. Should the Democracy gain the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's seat it would have a House majority-218-10-217-provided Death does not again intervene...
...reactionaries." Who, then, would be offered as the Republican compromise? Last fortnight Observer Clinton W. Gilbert's often accurate political finger pointed to bald, bespectacled Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., 18 years a Congressman. Universally respected and trusted, 56-year-old Congressman Mapes substituted for Speaker Longworth more often than any other member of the House. He is quiet-spoken, famed for fair play, an expert on legislative procedure. In Congress he voted for the Bonus, the Federal Farm Board and the present Tariff. He votes and drinks Dry, belonged to the Committees on Elections...
Washington society is dissected under a chapter entitled "Boiled Bosoms" with the Gann-Longworth and McLean-de Ligne feuds recounted (TIME, Dec. 15 et ante, May 13, 1929). Tittle-tattle: Bachelor Senator Tydings of Maryland playing "footie" with sedate ladies; Mrs. Trubee Davison, wife of the Assistant Secretary of War, smoking a pipe; Daisy Harriman trimming Senator Walsh's walrus-like mustache...
...Congressman Mills, for all his knowledge and dexterity with figures, had a manner that got him into ill favor with his colleagues, antagonized those with whom he had to work. He treated them with intellectual and social contempt, scorned their arguments? a legislative snob. Though his good friend Speaker Longworth declared he had "the best knowledge of national taxation of anyone in either house of Congress" his superciliousness in using that knowledge made him many a good enemy...