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Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri gave Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House of Representatives a revolver reputed to have belonged to bandit Jesse Woodson James...
...McNary-Haugen bill, extolled the Equalization Fee, favored the Debenture Export Plan. Though disagreeing with his agricultural views, President Coolidge once recommended him to a Massachusetts audience as the House's "strongest speaker" on farm relief. He made his activities felt upon the House leadership. Speaker Longworth remarked: "Dick, if you ever need an affidavit that you have been a hell-raiser for agriculture, just call...
...House, members rose and cheered when Representative Howard of Nebraska offered a facetious resolution praising Speaker Longworth for "preserving the prerogatives of the red granite of the legislative against the brownstone of the executive and the ermine marble of the Judiciary." The reference was to the speaker's refusal to accede to President Hoover's wish for a joint committee of Congress to study enforcement administration (TIME, Jan. 20). New York's Representative Oliver, flaying Prohibition, declared the government's policy had "driven liquor from the bar to the boudoir, from the saloon to the salon...
...Capitol was not exactly as the President had wished. He had asked for a Joint Committee of Congress to study changes in the administration of Prohibition enforcement. The Senate had voted him what he wanted. Last week the House got the studs, refused to authorize a Joint Committee. Speaker Longworth explained: "The leaders decided they did not believe in a Joint Committee which would take preliminary jurisdiction away from the Committees of the house. ... It is our purpose to take up each legislative measure and have it acted on by independent committees...
Before noon officials began to arrive in their motors to greet President & Mrs. Hoover. Citizen Hunefeld recognized many of them-Vice President Curtis, Speaker Longworth, the British Ambassador in his red jacket. Finally the great White House gates swung open and Citizen Hunefeld marched grandly at the head of his procession up the curving sidewalk to the big glass doors of the White House. When these opened Citizen Hunefeld did a gallant thing: removing his cap, he stepped aside to allow Mrs. Barrett to lead the line past the President...