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...House. With a good thumping Republican majority Speaker Longworth. Floor Leader Tilson and Rules Chairman Snell have ruled the House since 1925 by brute force rather than by parliamentary skill or legislative ability. No such majority will they have in the next Congress to enforce their will. Hence last week Republican Insurgency raised its head again in the form of a demand to liberalize the House rules as the price of party support. Well aware that the 12 or 15 disgruntled votes from the Northwest could wipe out their control, Messrs. Longworth, Tilson & Snell were ready to compromise. What...
...under a ladder in the executive office lobby. "General" Brown carefully picked his way around it. ¶ President & Mrs. Hoover gave their big "gold braid" reception to the diplomatic corps. Hands shaken: 1,494. With a "Hello, Dolly!" and a "Hello, Alice!" Mrs. Edward Everett Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth also shook hands, made up their social precedence feud. ¶ Last week the Federal Farm Board reported thus on its wheat & cotton stabilization efforts: "The outcome was not all that had been hoped for." Never the-less President Hoover asked Congress to give the Board another...
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...
...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...