Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caucus. The progressive or insurgent group had held a conference previously under its leader, John M. Nelson of Wisconsin. Three men were nominated to be Republican candidate for Speaker: Frederic Gillett of Massachusetts, the candidate of the regulars; Henry A. Cooper of Wisconsin, the insurgent candidate; and Martin B. Madden of Illinois, the candidate of his admirers and a few insurgents. With eleven absentees, the vote...
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Then Frank R. Reid of Illinois nominated his colleague, Mr. Madden, who promptly declared he was not a candidate. Nevertheless he was voted for by a group of Illinois "insurgents" who evidently did not care to class themselves openly with the Wisconsin and Minnesota variety...
...fares -sailed on the great liner. Among the more prominent were Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake" bid of $1,000,000, 000 for the entire Government fleet...
...Some politicians, (for example, Senators Fletcher, Edwards, Oddie; Representatives Britten, Madden, both of Illinois; Representatives Gallivan, Burton, McFadden, Sol Bloom...