Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah interposed: "He was not distinguished."
Of Speaker Longworth, Senator Harrison said: "He is approaching more nearly the tsarism of Speaker Reed than any speaker since those days. . . .* Is the Speaker praised . . . because his organization strangles and is now willing to kill the farm relief measure?"
"The obscure conference committee" that would write the Tariff Bill stirred Senator Harrison to ridicule. Explaining that Utah's Senator Reed Smoot would head that conference as chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Harrison cried: "Is he obscure? Why, children have lisped the name of Reed Smoot, have read...
Referring to the No. 6 Man as "Mr. Foghorn Adams," Senator Harrison quoted his remarks on the greatness of President Hoover and replied, with privileged Senatorial rudeness, that the President is "as negative a quantity ... as any we have ever had." Upon Secretary Adams's praise of the Cabinet...
Census: The ordinary Senator or Congressman of the party in power is interested in counting U. S. noses every decade because of the patronage he expects to get out of it. Some 100,000 jobs are at stake.