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...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...
...Navy Wilbur, James W. Gerard, Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord (Director of the Budget), William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor), Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Mayor-elect James J. Walker of New York City, Senators Ferris, Fletcher, Robinson of Arkansas, Caraway, Overman...
...vote was again 40 to 40; every Senator who had voted against the nomination voted to table the motion to reconsider and vice versa. It seemed that Mr. Dawes might still cast a deciding vote. But Senator Overman, the sole Democrat who had voted for confirmation and against tabling, rose...