Word: prentiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What brought relief matters close to a head last week was a six-day debate on the Costigan-La Follette bill which was made the Senate's unfinished business. For weeks in committee the Insurgent-Demo-cratic heart of Edward Prentiss Costigan and the Insurgent-Republican heart of Robert Marion La Follette bled as one witness after another told them how the nation's private charity organizations had all but broken down under the load of local relief. The Costigan-La Follette remedy was a $375.000.000 gift from the Govern-ment through the States to jobless citizens...
...Government; Yosdu Zawa, of Japan, Knight Biggerstaff; Braadland, of Norway, J. B. Thayer '21, assistant professor of Comparative Law; Barreto, of Peru, E. V. Huntington '95, professor of Mechanics; Sokal, of Poland, R. C. Dexter; Fotitch, of JugoSlavia, F. L. Kennedy '92, associate professor of Engineering Drawing, Emeritus; and Prentiss Gilbert, of the United States, R. P. Rich...
...Before the Senate Manufactures Committee were two bills for human relief: 1) a $250,000,000 appropriation sponsored by the committee's chairman, Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin who likes to play a sort of political Robin Hood; 2) a $375.000.000 appropriation backed by Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado, Virginia-born Harvardman, old-time reformer, Bull Mooser, Anti-Saloon Leaguer, longtime (1917-28) Tariff Commissioner. Having no stake in the proceedings, the rest of the committee went home for the holidays, leaving Senators La Follette and Costigan to prepare what amounted to a record on reasons...
...Prentiss Gilbert--U. S. observer and participant in League of Nations' councils--protested by Japan...
Long-necked Japanese cranes make a peculiar gurgling squawk. Near the crane pen in the Washington Zoo stands a pretentious apartment house whose residents have long been annoyed by the gurgling squawks of the Zoo's cranes-Japanese, Siberian, domestic. When Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado moved into this apartment house, other tenants hoped he would be disturbed by the cranes, be awakened by one particularly noisy Japanese crane (named Anson) who squawked before dawn each morning. They felt sure that if Senator Costigan complained, something would be done to silence the cranes...