Word: snellings
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...Guard in New York and his own political friends there in a major matter of patronage. Charles Henry Tuttle had resigned as the U. S. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan) last September to run vainly for governor. Old Guardsmen led by hard-boiled Congressman Snell demanded the appointment of Keyes Winter, wheelhorse politician, as the Tuttle successor. The President's friends like Congresswoman Pratt and William Hill wanted Alan Fox, good 1928 Hooverizer, to get the job. Last week Mr. Snell brought into the Old Guard's insistence a threat of legislative warfare...
...other business, postponing as long as possible all controversial subjects like Prohibition, Muscle Shoals, Power Commission, Lame Duck Session, Immigration, Farm Problem. Unemployment would be touched on in the Supply bills-extra appropriation to enlarge Federal building of roads, offices, ships, dams, dikes, barracks. But Chairman Bert Snell of the House Rules Committee, one of the Republican Big Three,* was acknowledging the likelihood and trying to soften the impact of Democratic-insurgent opposition when he said last week...
...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...
...Mace." Almost too much for British editors was this desecration of the Mace. The august Time's editorial, "The Rape of the Mace" was an attempt at urbanity but the editor of the Daily Telegraph (Conservative) let himself go completely, openly deplored the presence of Rules Chairman Snell and other U. S. Congressmen* in the Gallery of the House when the sacrilege occurred. The distracted Telegraph said: "One hopes they understand that the Mace in no sense represents the authority of the Crown. It is purely a parliamentary symbol representing the determination of the Speaker to uphold the liberties...