Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Representative Homer Parker from Georgia rose to a point of personal privilege. He complained that newspapers had attacked him because he was convicted in 1917 of breaking Georgia's gambling law by playing poker. He too was shushed after Texas' blatant Blanton had demanded: "Has it come to a point where engaging in a poker game reflects upon the integrity of a legislator...
...Fish, however, was not done. He roamed up & down the centre aisle and to five small separate and successive bills which various members of the House eagerly desired passed he objected loudly. Finally Majority Leader Byrns could stand it no longer. He rose and declared...
...still harbored wrath against him. They carried him off to the East Boston immigration station and booked him for deportation to Italy because he had been twice convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude. He was allowed 90 days freedom if he could raise $1,000 bail. Expecting his wife Rose to bring the bail at any moment, he refused to take off his coat and hat, refused to eat lunch. His next meal, he insisted, was going to be chicken with rice, and he was going to spend the night with his wife at Boston's best hotel. When...
Almost to a man the docile little politicians of Japan's House of Representatives rose in their places last week to give Japan for 1934-35 a general's dream of what a budget ought to be. Of its 2,112,000,000 yen ($633,600,000), full 44% went to the Army and Navy, an alltime peacetime high. The Army got 450,000,000 yen ($135,000,000), the Navy 488,000,000 yen ($146,400,000). Hardly a murmur was raised against this gigantic bill for war weapons and men to use them. Indeed, Foreign Minister...
Across this comparative calm the stain of scandal suddenly spread last week. Renegades of the majority Seiyukai party rose to link Minister of Education Ichiro Hatoyama and Railways Minister Chuzo Mitsuchi with the recent significant merger of all Japanese steel works. They charged that the steel companies had cash-bribed Ministers Hatoyama & Mitsuchi and 130 Representatives. Furious voices screamed back & forth in the Diet, named Hatoyama with menacing frequency. True or false, the scandal was of the kind that traditionally makes Cabinets reach for their hats. Premier Saito was ready to "release" Hatoyama, hoped against hope that that would...