Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five Days. Bruce, the Conservative from Maryland, voted for the measure, but not until he had proposed and been defeated in each of six amendments - not until he had awakened Senator Neely, Democrat from West Virginia, to exceedingly vigorous language...
...with the shock of white hair is Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture whose farm bill is raising such a rumpus. You see that smart young man who is going around and making so much of a party out of this? That is John Philip Hill of Maryland, who has appropriated to himself the leadership of the vociferous Wet bloc. There is Jack Garner, the Democratic Chief on the Ways and Means Committee. It was he who united with Bill Green, the chairman, to make a non-partisan tax bill. That fellow with the flowing black locks, who looks...
...last week a bill appeared in the House to authorize a $30,000 memorial to the 93rd Division (Colored) in France. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York (onetime officer of the 93rd Division) was its sponsor. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland a member of the Battle Monuments Commission urged that it was unwise for the House to begin designating specific monuments. The Democrats in general joined him (a Republican) in opposition, protesting that they were not raising a race question, but supporting a principle. But the House, in acting mood, could not be deterred, passed the bill...
...Broussard of Louisiana, Overman of North Carolina, Smith of South Carolina? all from the solid South. The Democrats have not a chance of losing one of their seats, but the Republicans have seats which may be lost to Democrats this year in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington. In a few of these 14 states there is a mere chance of the Republicans' losing; in a few of them there is a decided probability that the Democrats will win. In most of them it is too early even to give probabilities...
Outside the Senate there have been and are other leaders trying to formulate the terms of leadership. Such is Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. His speech last week before the Boston City Club gave his idea...