Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This letter is to report an incident which happened in this town not long ago of a woman whose telephone rang at three o'clock in the morning. She fell down stairs and broke her leg. Another member of the family answered the telephone and was informed that the party had the wrong number. This woman did not thank the telephone operator...
First he made an appeal to the country, thus: "The vote in the Senate today adds further delay to farm relief and may gravely jeopardize the enactment of legislation. ... I earnestly hope that the Congress will enact the conferees' report...
...Adopted (48-37) the conference report on the Census & Reapportionment bill. ¶ Rejected a resolution by Idaho's Borah to instruct the finance committee to limit tariff revision to the agricultural schedules. ¶ Rejected (46-43) the Debentureless conference report on Farm Relief; later adopted...
...Voted (250-113) against the Debenture provision in the Farm Relief bill; later adopted viva voce the conference report on this measure. The bill went to the President for signature (see p. 11). ¶ Debated Prohibition killings...
Much legislative maneuvring was necessary to get the measure through to the White House. First the Senate, full of ill temper, refused by a vote of 46 to 43, to accept the conference report in which the export debenture plan was stricken from the bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen...