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...June drew near and with it the hour at which Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Republican ringmaster, had decreed that the 69th Congress should fasten its portfolio flaps and go home for the summer. But the 69th Congress showed no intention whatever of obeying Mr. Longworth...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth...
...visit to the National Museum, where the archeologist forgot the Prince and stayed an hour and a half, the Prince and Princess saw Vice President Dawes and Senator Borah at the Capitol, sat unnoticed in the Senate gallery for five minutes, were escorted to the House gallery by Speaker Longworth. The Representatives rose and cheered. Two speeches were made for the Prince. In the hall Congressman Upshaw slapped his fellow Dry on the back, exclaiming: "Hurrah for Sverege!" The Prince smiled sweetly. Speaker Longworth and the Foreign Affairs Committee had their pictures taken with the Prince. Mr. Upshaw crashed...
...Shipping Board to the Dollar shipping interests. Senator Copeland, New York's Democratic Senator, called on the President to explain his bill for preventing strikes in the anthracite industry. A committee of the National Training Camps Association called to discuss the costs of summer military training. Speaker Longworth called to tell the President that he hoped Congress could adjourn by the middle of June...
...that fellow with the large chest and ruddy face looking straight before him in the midst of that admiring group? He is smiling and blushing. Probably someone has just suggested that he will be the next President. That is Nick Longworth, the Speaker. He and his cronies run the House by dint of goodwill and numbers -because, you see, politics in the House isn't half so individualistic as in the Senate. Everybody likes Nick. He is the likable boss, although that lean stiff man, Tilson of Connecticut, bears the formal title of Republican leader. The impressive...