Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative chamber in Madison one day last fortnight, the Wisconsin Senate rose to its 62 feet to listen to the opening prayer. For this prayer the Senate pays $3 every day to a local or visiting minister; that day it got more than its $3 worth. Prayed Rev. Allen Eddy of Madison's Plymouth Congregational Church...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
...Legislatures. Texas' Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits") O'Daniel, having surprisingly turned into a sincere if nai've executive who could get nowhere against professional obstructors, sent his Legislature home from Austin with a near-zero record. Wisconsin's ludicrous Julius ("The Just") Heil in Madison was entangled in his own bumblings and the snares of Republican legislators who connived to load him with all the blame for their sorry record, adjourn with the least possible damage to their party. New York's Democrat Herbert Lehman recalled his Legislature to Albany to repair a budget...
ARTHUR JAMES PEGLER Madison, Conn...
...memorial service in Madison...