Word: snellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives, but no clown, he is a cogent contributor to the work of the committees on Public Lands, Territories, Indian Affairs, Coinage, Weights & Measures. He calls himself a "Free Democrat." but is seldom not ''regular." He is friendly with Republican leaders like Speaker Longworth, Congressmen Tilson and Snell, whom he humorously denounces. He is one of the last of the old-school Demo-cratic "statesmen." He voted for: Restrictive Immigration (1923), the Soldier Bonus (1924), Farm Relief (1927. 1928), the Farm Board (1929), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929). He voted against: the Tariff (1930), Tax Reduction...
...Distinguished Visitors' Gallery, a plump cheese man from upstate New York sat watching the House of Commons at its work one day last week. "He's Chairman of their Congressional Rules Committee over in the States," the M. P.'s told each other. "Some such name as Snell...
...hard, darting, practical glance of Congressman Bertrand ("Bert") Snell the House of Commons must have teemed with curious contrasts. In his own semicircular House of Representatives, for example, males and females sit hatless as in a theatre, facing the "well" beyond which rises Speaker Nicholas Longworth's rostrum. They may not eat, drink or smoke, but may address the House in Spanish?language of the Philippines...
Britain's Gandhite. Suddenly, Congressman Snell and every one else in the chamber beheld an ascetic looking Laborite with high cheekbones and owlish glasses leap up from his bench and, pulling a queer white cap from his pocket, clap it on his head. What did that mean...
Representative Fish was deprived of credit for this investigation when Representative Snell, potent chairman of the potent Rules Committee, rewrote the Fish resolution, put his own name on it. To be investigated were "Communist propaganda in the U. S. . . . The Communist party of the U. S. and all affiliated organizations . . . the Communist International, the Amtorg Trading Corp., The Daily Worker and all groups or individuals who . . . advise, teach or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the U. S. or attempt to undermine our Republican form of government...