Word: maddening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Congressmen it is said that the longer they serve their districts, the less they serve their districts and the more they serve the nation. Of Representative Madden this was unusually true. His rise to dominance in the House was speedy after his first election in 1904. He measured up to make a trio of the famed Illinois couple of that time, Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon and James R. Mann. His district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please...
Budget. He found that it was his duty for the most part to prevent appropriations rather than provide them. Last week, wondering whom to put in Mr. Madden's committee chair, Republicans could think of no one possessing comparable knowledge and integrity. Choice seemed to lie between Indiana's Wood, Michigan's Cramton, Idaho's French...
However his abilities may have outgrown his home district, Mr. Madden's popularity at home had not diminished. His constituents were disgusted with his political associate Mayor William Hale (-'Big Bill") Thompson, and some of them had determined to nominate a Congressman of their own race, a Negro. But Thompsonism could not touch him nor could race pride overcome so long and fine a record as his. Mr. Madden was comfortably renominated. Appointment of a Negro to succeed him was expected, the first Negro to go to Congress in 25 years, the first ever from the North...
...Sunday the House members went to their chamber for Mr. Madden's state funeral, a rare honor that was accorded him. Mrs. Madden took the body for burial to Hinsdale, Ill. So ended the career of an immigrant boy from England who, working in a stone quarry, lost his foot and instead of suing the company rose in it, became president, grew rich, entered politics, stayed honest, gained fame...
While Representative Madden gasped his last (see above), frantic calls went out for Representatives Sirovich (New York), Summers (Washington), Irwin (Illinois), Fitzgerald (Ohio), all of whom are physicians. Dr. Sirovich arrived first and, lacking a better remedy, applied artificial respiration to the dying man. Breath began, the pulse quickened, but not for long. In five minutes the damaged heart stopped beating...