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Minority. Almost academic last week became the Republican minority's squabble as to who should head what in the next House. Congressman John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut, last year's Floor Leader, and Bertrand H. Snell of New York, Rules Committee chairman, struggled for the empty honor of being nominated by the G. 0. P. for Speaker and then defeated by Democrat Gamer. Cheesemaker Snell, hard-boiled and reactionary when the Republicans are in complete control, went about last week conciliating and winning over Progressive votes to his candidacy with oversized promises of liberalizing the House rules. After...
...simple. Grizzled John Nance ("Jack") Garner, onetime cowboy, longtime Democratic floor leader, has the undivided support of his party. But if the G. O. P. retains its regularly Republican district in Ohio, long will be the wrangling and bitter. The leading contestants will be ruddy, stocky Bertram H. Snell, the upstate New York cheesemaker, chairman of the Committee on Rules, and long-legged John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut, the Republican floor leader. Because he is "reactionary," Mr. Snell will be fought by the Wrestern irregulars. Because he is "ineffectual," Mr. Tilson will be shunned by many of his fellow Eastern...
...might U. S. statesmen call on Europe to take a rather larger, a rather kinder, a rather better attitude. But the only direct U. S. rebuttal in Washington last week was a yelp of mental pain, quite lacking in dignified rebuke or injured moral rectitude. Yelped Representative Bertrand H. Snell, onetime upstate New York cheesemaker, chairman of the House Rules Committee: "Why is it that when a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat...
...dogmatic manner, a tart tongue. As floor leader he has often failed to command a following. But because of Mr. Tilson's intense loyalty to White House policies, President Hoover would like to see his elevation. Already last week he had rivals for the Speakership?Rules Chairman Bert Snell, ultra-conservative and hardboiled, supported by New York and Pennsylvania; Kansas' Homer Hoch backed by mild Mid-West Insurgents; Indiana's little old Wood; Michigan's nice, stodgy Mapes...
...children talk a language, that language is still a live one, not dead nor artificially fostered for patriotic reasons. If the situation is the same in northern Scotland and the Western Isles, as I understand it is, the University of Inverness will be well justified. W. N. Snell...