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...Clerk of the House William Tyler Page was reading from the rostrum in his clear rapid voice, which usually rings out over the Representatives' heads as though it (or they) had nothing to do with the case The Clerk was reading a letter from jovial rubicund Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who was prolonging his vacation (in Cincinnati). The letter designated Mr. Longworth's substitute, the Speaker Pro Tem. When Clerk Page stopped reading, up came the Representatives' hands to clap as loudly as they could for a slim, smiling little lady in neat black who stepped briskly...
Next day the mighty U. S. press was busy reminding the public that other famed statesmen-fiddlers are Nicholas Longworth and Charles Gates Dawes; some others even going so far as to mention Benito Mussolini...
...Guests at the White House for dinner one evening were three people who once lived there several years?Theodore, Kermit and Alice Roosevelt (now Longworth.) Theodore said that he was studying Spanish, not in order the better to converse with the President who knows it well, but in preparation for his duties as Governor of Porto Rico, in which the Senate had just confirmed...
...evening and for the space of an hour President Hoover told them what they must do to unsnarl the legislative tangle at the Capitol. Leader Watson informed the President the Senate would not back down on its debenture plan until the House had voted openly against it. Speaker Longworth said the House did not want to vote openly on the debenture plan. Then the President spoke: "The House must vote"?and vote...
...accept the conference report in which the export debenture plan was stricken from the bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate had no constitutional authority to originate...