Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tariff Tabled. Tariff revision is a House prerogative. Tariff reduction is anathema to Republicans. So the chubby face of Speaker Longworth darkened with a double frown when, last week, a clerk brought into the House the Senate's resolution for immediate tariff reduction (TIME, Jan. 23). Democrats cried out for action, but Speaker Longworth ruled them out of order and left the resolution "in midair" as a mere opinion of the Senate which the House could and would ignore...
...audience looked thankfully at burly guards stationed near. No bomb came. The speaker thundered: "Chicago has sold her soul for pleasure. Old Rome in all its licentiousness was never like this city! . . . It is up to you people to arise...
...lectures are made possible by the Dowes Institute, which has been giving this particular series of lectures at the University for the past 70 years. The speaker has the privilege of talking on any subject that he chooses...
...Andrew Jackson, the hardbitten, relentless foe of Federalism. Andrew Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...
Last week, the House Committee on elections voted to report the resolution promptly and favorably this time instead of pouching it. But the House was still static. Republican Floor Leader Tilson said: "There is little interest in the House." Speaker Longworth said he could observe "very little sentiment" for the Amendment. Chairman White of the Committee on Elections said the Amendment would surely pass the House if ever it could reach a vote...