Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Watkins Anderson of Virginia, Republican Lawyer...
...somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with an up-and-down motion of the elbows which has brought him, among newsmen, the title of "The Jersey...
House Reception. Great was the uncertainty in the House as to the proper method of receiving the Senate's Farm Bill. Many a Republican leader felt that the Debenture Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell...
...purpose of these hearings was to evolve a common political denominator on which sufficient Republican strength could be massed to insure the farm bill against serious revision on the House floor. The committee was ready to compromise, to grant increased agricultural rates to win solid party support for the bill as a whole against all Democratic amendments...
...week the prospect was that the House would pass the Tariff Bill before June 1 and then recess until about August 1; that the Senate would recess until July 1, while its Finance Committee overhauls the House's measure. The certainty of a tiresome summer session prompted five Republican senators to rent the Walter Tuckerman country home near Bethesda, Md., there to establish bachelor-hall after despatching their families to cooler climates. The Senators were...