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...Defeated (203-10-132) a motion to bring out of committee a $100,000.000 drainage and irrigation relief bill. ¶ Swore in Russell Elzey as a new member from Mississippi vice Percy Edwards Quin. deceased...
...second was Percy Edwards Quin, 59, of McComb City, Miss. A rustic wit, he was famed for voting more or less as he pleased on minor issues, for tearing off his collar and salting his throat while engaged in debate and for smoking a pipe on the House floor, against strict rules. A Congressman for almost 19 years, he had chairmanned the Military Affairs Committee since the Democrats organized the 72nd Congress...
...important committee chairmen were: Byrns of Tennessee, Appropriations: Collier of Mississippi, Ways and Means; Pou of North Carolina, Rules; Jones of Texas, Agriculture; Steagall of Alabama, Banking & Currency: Sumners of Texas, Judiciary: Rayburn of Texas, Interstate & Foreign Commerce; Dickstein of New York, Immigration; Linthicum of Maryland, Foreign Affairs; Quin of Mississippi, Military Affairs; Vinson of Georgia, Naval Affairs; Black of New-York, Claims; Mead of New York, Post Offices...
...concerning our two lady members Miss Carolyn H. Saunders is the daughter of a Harvard graduate and Mrs. Mary I. Gozzaldi the mother of two sons both graduating in 1914 and the grand-daughter of Samuel Batchelder, Esq., many of whose descendents are recorded in the Harvard Quin-quennial including Samuel Francis Batchelder, Class Secretary of the Class of 1893, formerly secretary of the Cambridge Historical Society, and known to many Harvard graduates for his charming and accurate "Episodes in the past history of Harvard College." Yours very truly, Robert Walcott Press Cambridge Historical Society...
...endeavor so to emphasize his role as to throw the other characters unreasonably into the background. On the contrary his supporting cast contributes greatly to the excellence of his own interpretation of Hamlet, Louis Leon Hall and Irby Marshall as the king and queen being particularly satisfactory. Philip Quin in the part of Polonius somehow tails, in the opinion of the reviewer, to give an altogether persuasive representation, but, inasmuch as the true character of the Lord Chamberlain is largely a matter for opinion. Mr. Quin's playing of it is also a matter for personal prejudice. In portraying Polonius...