Word: snellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Successor to the late Joseph Robinson as Senate majority leader is (1 Samuel H. Reyburn, 2 Henrik Shipstead, 3 Bertrand H. Snell, 4 Robert M. La Follette Jr. 5 Alben W Barkley...
...listen to Town Hall's programs and discuss them afterwards. To foster local town meetings all over the U. S.. the League for Political Education, changing its name to Town Hall, Inc., with Denny as its president, last week established an extension division under Chester DeForest Snell, formerly head of the University of Wisconsin Extension Division...
...Republican floor leader of the House, New York's Bertrand H. Snell, has the duty of taking cracks at the majority, but he was in better form last week than usual when he came to summarize the highlights of the session. He listed: 1) the President's fishing trip, 2) Vice President Garner's hunting trip in Pennsylvania and 3) a Congressional eating contest, to decide the relative merits of Maine and Idaho potatoes...
...attempt to coax the Wages & Hours Bill out of the Rules Committee where it has reposed since last August with a petition to discharge the Rules Committee. When Majority Leader Sam Rayburn announced that he had signed the petition, urged his confreres to do likewise, Republican Leader Bertrand Snell was inspired to a dour comment. Said...
That Republican Leader Snell sometimes has an even harder time running his much smaller faction of the House-its 90 Republican minority- than Majority Leader Rayburn has with his unruly Democratic majority had been made apparent on the very first day of the Special Session. To a request for adjournment for three days, which needed unanimous consent to be effective, an obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first...