Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I want to correct what seemed to me the wrong impression conveyed by your footnote on Senator Smoot, p. 12 (TIME, April 8). As a student of government, I have no special bias in favor of any party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was...
TIME'S footnote said: "A 'facts and figures' campaign speech in Philadelphia caused a good Republican audience, provoked by his schoolmarm manner, to boo Senator Smoot."-ED
To harass a Cabinet officer by nipping and snapping at his ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew...
Pennsylvania's Senator Reed, a succinct statement of his business affairs, the abandonment of which before 1921 qualified him for his post. Said Mr. Mellon:
Secretary Mellon's statement so impressed the Judiciary Committee that without formal action it agreed not to question him further. Senator McKellar, however, 'thought he saw a last opportunity for nipper-snapping in the fact that Gulf Oil operates 29 "sea vessels," that as a stockholder in Gulf...