Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield of Columbus, Tex. is one of the two members of Congress who operate in wheel chairs.* A gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week...
...addition to Brooks, the officers of the Committee are Harry K. Mansfield, business manager; Lemuel Bannister, Jr., circulation chairman; and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., advertising chairman...
...London dinner guests, the Earl of Mansfield, reputable British ornithologist, told how the local birthrate had soared after he stocked his Dumfriesshire estate with storks. Two housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...
...House of Representatives, married Actor John Emery and announced that she was "going to New York to raise hell." Nobody imagined, however, that Shakespeare was to be included in the party. But last week, after long preparation and a road tour, Tallulah swept into Manhattan's Mansfield Theatre in the traditional gilded brassiere and diaphanous pantalettes of the serpent of the Nile. After watching veteran Conway Tearle play Antony like a bemused warhorse, with a Cleopatra who was more like a flouncing Cleopatsy, Broadway was not surprised when the play closed after five performances...
Business Manager Harry K. Mansfield and Chairman John F. Brooks recently made Lemuel Bannister, Jr. Circulation Manager and Langdon P. Marvin the Advertising Manager of the publication...