Word: snellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House with the election of Illinois' white-thatched Henry Thomas Rainey to the Speakership as a result of last fortnight's Tennessee-Texas-Tammany deal in the Democratic caucus. He got 302 votes to the 110 cast for his Republican opponent, New York's Snell&3151;an immediate demonstration of the Democrats' margin of House control...
When the new House meets, the formality of electing its Speaker will occur. New York's Republican Snell will get about 117 votes. With 313 votes Democrat Rainey will be elevated to the rostrum to take legislative command of the New Deal...
...many in the House were less willing to put President Roosevelt above the lawmaking power of Congress. Gibed Republican Leader Snell: "We'd better abolish Congress and go home." So loud grew the cries of dissent that Speaker Garner, a good retreater, decided to put his dictatorship plan over until the next session...
...looks as if the Democrats haven't got the courage and stamina to fulfill their platform pledges and make the promised 25% reduction in expenditures." Senators Long and Connally vowed that they would never support tax legislation which did not also raise surtaxes on larger incomes. Representative Snell, Republican leader in the House, took advantage of the confusion to remark: "The new Democratic motto is 'Soak the poor.' Last session it was 'Soak the rich.' Now they propose to load everything onto the small income taxpayer...
...Republican majority leader who would not have succeeded to the Speakership even under favorable circumstances was Connecticut's gangling Tilson. When his party went into the minority, he was displaced by New York's Snell as leader. * Convicted of using the mails to defraud, the slickers were sentenced last week to seven and five years in Atlanta Penitentiary. * Last week "Hampton," the 100-year-old Wadsworth home at Geneseo, burned to the ground in its owner's absence. Loss...