Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ A smiling prophet of woe, Indiana's Senator Watson, now Republican leader, went to the White House to tell President Hoover that the special session of Congress would probably extend through the summer and into the autumn. President Hoover heard this prediction without joy.
So reads Section 3 of the 18th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. To the lay mind it may not seem particularly funny, but last week it caused Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah some great−though very temporary−amusement.
Much reading of the Constitution has made Mr. Borah a solemn man whom the ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was...
The foundation was established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of a son, to "improve the quality of education and the practice of the arts and professions in the United States, to foster research, and to provide for the cause of international understanding...
The only protest against the Hoover oil policy came, ironically enough, from Montana's Senator Walsh, the dynamite who blew the oil scandals above ground. Some of his criticisms were: 1) the "wildcatter" whose enterprise developed the oil industry will be penalized; 2) the State of Montana would be...