Word: pleaders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...item in the Senate bill which President Hoover did not recommend: $60,000 more for upkeep of the Senate Office Building. Prime pleader for that sum was New Hampshire's Senator George Higgins Moses who. as chairman of the Rules Committee, is the building's chief custodian. His explanation: "The building was infested with cockroaches until we found the source of it, down below, and closed it up. They became so lively that some of them were holding debates with the office force and making life unpleasant for Senators. I had to hire extra scrubwomen. . . . Remember, every Senator...