Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶New York's Senator Copeland is a physician. He has crusaded for fresh air in the Senate chamber. Last week he went to the White House, sniffed the air in the President's office, remarked professionally that it was much too hot. President Hoover got up and...
Joseph Moore Dixon of Missoula, Mont., to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Born of Quaker parents in North Carolina and educated at Quaker colleges, Mr. Dixon, as a lawyer, went west, became U. S. Senator from Montana, later its Governor. He went off Bull Moosing in 1912, remained a...
As a Senator from Kansas, Charles Curtis had fun, but not so much as other Senators. He worked hard, attended regularly, and after the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924) he became the G.O.P.'s busy Senate housekeeper. Now that he is Vice President, with high official rank and...
No longer a Senator with a vote, but always a Grand Old Partisan, he said in an interview: "I am a tariff protectionist. I am sure the needs of the South will be given careful consideration in the drafting of the bill."
On March 2, 1929 President Coolidge signed the Jones-Stalker Bill which authorized the imposition of a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine or five years imprisonment or both for violations of the National Prohibition Law. The purpose according to Senator Jones, was to combat large scale "bootlegging" operations. By...