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...Seven Republican Senators, Messrs. Capper of Kansas, Frazier of North Dakota, Greene of Vermont, Pepper of Pennsylvania, Stanfield of Oregon, McLean of Connecticut and Metcalf of Rhode Island, sat around the snowy napery of the President's breakfast table. They lifted their eyebrows significantly and discussed whether or not the heat might force Congress to adjourn about the middle of June...
More hastily, Senator Metcalf nodded a relieved assent. The Vice President struck the untraditional telegram from the record. Senator Reed proceeded leisurely to teach Senator Metcalf that, before sending to the clerk such a letter or telegram, the recipient confers with the Senator attacked?to teach him other lessons in the traditions of a most traditional Chamber...
...business of the Italian debt. After many hours of debate, there was a lull. Veteran Senators became aware that the clerk was reading something. Listening, they heard it to be a seething telegram. Mystified, they whisperingly questioned one another, learned that the Junior Senator from Rhode Island (Jesse Houghton Metcalf) had sent to the clerk this telegram from a constituent, Angelo Morello, who had become incensed by re marks made the previous day by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri.* "Scurrilous, venomous . . . due to ignorance and prejudice," said Angelo Morello's telegram. Veteran Senators were appalled, cast sad looks...
...Senator Metcalf, a newcomer to the Senate, replied, abashed, nervous: "I did not understand I was violating any rule...
...those of Mr. James Simpson of Chicago and Mr. Walter P. Chrysler (TIME, March 8), who respectively financed but did not accompany the Roosevelt-Field Museum trip for Ovis poli (just returned from Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo in particular. Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf are to be accompanied by Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director...