Word: republican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Norton's attempt to coax the Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment. Said...
...That Republican Leader Snell sometimes has an even harder time running his much smaller faction of the House-its 90 Republican minority- than Majority Leader Rayburn has with his unruly Democratic majority had been made apparent on the very first day of the Special Session. To a request for adjournment for three days, which needed unanimous consent to be effective, an obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first...
Tennessee's Finis James Garrett served in the House of Representatives continuously from 1905 to 1929. In 1923. 1925 and 1927 he was nominated for what has often been called the second most important job in the U. S.-the House Speakership. Republican majorities defeated him each time and by 1928 Representative Garrett was convinced that the best he could ever hope for in the House was the minority leadership he had held for five years. In 1928, he ran against bumbling Kenneth McKellar in the primary for the U. S. Senate. Opposed by Memphis' potent Boss Edward...
...many a Hull critic an opportunity to argue that with U. S. tariff favors so lightly won the non-signatory nations of the world will not feel the need to give as well as take. Just as this criticism was being aired again in the Satevepost by Kansas' Republican Senator Author Capper. Mr. Hull was last week able to present a highly dramatic refutation...
...remember, boys, while these Harvard people have treated you boys swell, have dined you at the best hotels, put you up in the finest bedrooms, boys, remember this--when you go out there on the field never forget that every one of them Harvard fellows votes the straight Republican ticket." . . . Ed Nace, Letter to the Editors of "Time...