Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief political figures in the Anti's firmament were Senator Bayard of Delaware and Senator Bruce of Maryland, both Democrats, and Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, Republican. Besides the regular sessions of the Conference, there was a dinner at which Representative Hill toastmastered and the two Senators spoke, advocating modification of the Volstead Act to permit the Government, without the reincarnation of the saloon, to sell regulated amounts of alcoholic beverages for home consumption (a system similar to that in force in various parts of Canada...
...test of this proposed compulsory consolidation program will come when the decision has to be made as to who will get the New Haven, the Great Western or the Western Maryland...
...LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith, 39; Cummins, 29; Couzens, 6 (38 necessary to elect). There were 22 members absent, nearly all of whom were paired...
...House of Representatives of the United States of America, Representative John Philip Hill, Republican (Wet), of Maryland, and Representative William David Upshaw, Democrat (Dry), of Georgia, staged the following skit...
...Those in which the county as a unit is a considerable factor in bringing about consolidation. They are Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, New Mexico...