Word: overman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Overman of North Carolina, a Democrat, echoed Mr. Bingham from another angle: "If the right to reject a Senator had been followed, there would not have been a Southern Senator on the floor in the days following the Civil...
Hugo L. Black of Alabama Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida Senator Walter F. George of Georgia Senator Edwin S. Broussard of Louisiana Senator Lee S. Overman of North Carolina Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina...
...Overman of North Carolina: "The Senator will have to explain what that means...
...This is a year in which Senators and Representatives are elected. The Senators who this year come up for re-election were elected in 1920 in a Republican landslide. The Democrats among them are Underwood of Alabama, Caraway of Arkansas, Fletcher of Florida, George of Georgia, 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...
...been. He was wrong. In 1844, Senator Benjamin Tappan of Ohio, after deep apologies, was forgiven for having divulged confidential information to newspapers. It has long been the custom of the Senate tacitly to permit a Senator to tell how he himself voted in secret session. Thus Senator Overman of North Carolina jubilantly boasts he voted against Mr. Woodlock...