Word: maddeningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alterations had to be procured. Then plans and specifications had to be prepared which could get satisfactory bids under both laws. This last has not been accomplished yet-they hope to achieve it by July 1. Grieved, the House Appropriations Committee agreed to renew the appropriation, although Representative Madden, its Chairman, remarked: "We had better give the house away again and let somebody else...
...begin to lay their plans as soon as it was known, last fall, that Mr. Gillett was to be elevated to the Senate? Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky exudation over the contest? Why else did Madden (Chairman of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee) and Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession (the profession which cost him a leg and sent him into politics), veteran in the political arena (as early...
...Parry Jr., Chairman, Miss Celesfe Pope; G. P. Carver Jr., Miss Constance Stanton; E. H. Ober, Miss Alice Madden: W. F. Howard, Miss Helen Powers; B. D. Leahey, Miss Kate Johnson: R. C. Howe Jr., Miss Elizabeth Hanson; R. L. Hunt, Miss Frances Love; F. Dyer, Miss Elinor Burnett; R. H. Babbitt, Miss Ruth Johnston; R. S. Lee, Miss Mildred Stone, L. A. Weisman, Miss Dorothy Kiam; A. R. Allen Jr., Miss Elizabeth Thorndike...
...weekly cruise of the Mayflower, the Coolidge guests numbered Actress Julia Arthur, Representative and Mrs. Martin B. Madden of Illinois and John T. Adams of Iowa, onetime Chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...House (to succeed Speaker Gillett who goes to the Senate). Since the Republicans will have a majority in the next Congress, the choice of the caucus should be practically equivalent to election. The two leading candidates are Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, Republican floor leader and Representative Martin B. Madden of Illinois...