Word: maddeningly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge gave a farewell dinner to C. Bascom Slemp, who retired as Secretary to the President. The guests included Secretaries Weeks and Hoover, Speaker Gillett, Senator Hale of Maine, Representatives Longworth and Madden, Commissioners Blair (Internal Revenue) and Burke (Indian Affairs), ex-Senator Sutherland of West Virginia, G. Logan Payne, Washington publisher. Afterward, Mr. Slemp departed for a vacation in Florida before resuming his law practice in Washington...
...White House chef instead of by the usual caterer. There were 46 guests, including all the members of the Cabinet and their wives except Mr and Mrs. James J. Davis, who are in South America (TIME, Nov. 17). Senators Warren, Borah, Wadsworth, Butler, Curtis; Representatives Snell, Sanders (Ind.), Madden, Longworth; Colonel George Harvey, Director of the Budget Lord, John Hays Hammond, C. Bascom Slemp were included. Most of those who had wives brought them. Some of the unattended ladies were Representative Mae E. Nolan, Mrs. Eugene Hale (mother of Senator Hale of Maine and widow of Senator Eugene Hale...
Only a few weeks ago, before colleges opened, football players went back for pre-season practice, to get a "flying start." With much similitude, the Appropriations Committee of the House assembled in the Capitol, last week, in advance of the reopening of Congress. With Martin B. Madden of Illinois in the Chair, the Committee settled down to work on a number of appropriation bills. The supply bills for the Post Office and the Interior Departments were taken up. With appropriate foresight, the Committee hopes to have several appropriation measures ready for the House as soon as it assembles...
...Callers at the White House included Senator Smoot (Chairman of the Finance Committee) to discuss proposals for tax reduction in the next session of Congress; Representative Madden (Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee) for the same purpose; Senator Watson and Senator Wadsworth to discuss Senate organization and the advisability of disciplining Senator LaFollette...
...expected to recommend a new program of tax reduction, less far-reaching than the last. Congress itself may come forward with some new measures of that kind. Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has already suggested that a means be devised of rebating* all Treasury surplusses (over $25,000,000) to tax payers in order to keep the Government poor and reduce the tendency to extravagance by either the Executive or Legislative Branch...