Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republican politicians were anticipating the 1930 census with relish when the Senate last fortnight voted 42 to 37 to put all census employes under Civil Service. This proposal, sponsored by New York's Senator Wagner, rallied his Democratic colleagues and enough insurgent Republicans to wreck, at least temporarily, the...
The regular Republicans grumped about overburdening the Civil Service Commission with unnecessary work and prayed that the House would knock this "reform" provision out of the bill. It remained for a Democratic Senator, South Carolina's Blease, to put into words their true sentiments about this innovation.
Said Senator Blease: "The Civil Service is the most damnable, the most iniquitous system ever perpetrated upon a free country. I believe to the victors belong the spoils. ... If North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida want to go Republican, let them have Republican census-takers. ... If that is the company...
Chief advocates of reapportionment were: Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California (which stands to gain six House seats); Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan (which stands to gain four seats). Futile filibusters against reapportionment, were Senators Harrison of Mississippi (which stands to lose two seats); Black of Alabama and Swanson...
To Senator Vandenberg went the public credit of insistently driving this measure through a reluctant Senate. It was his first major activity since coming to the Senate a year ago. Born in Grand Rapids 45 years ago, at the age of 22 Senator Vandenberg became the editor-publisher of the...