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...House Memorials Committee, whose duty it is to compose sonorous resolutions of mourning on the deaths of Congressmen or notables. Because its other Democratic member was otherwise occupied, Congressman Hamlin was named the Committee's chairman. It was the first time in House history that a first-termer had been honored with a committee chairmanship, but the Gentleman from Maine did not rejoice. All one day last week eight large Negro charwomen toiled to prepare for him the House Office Building suite of the Memorials Committee chairman. But in his old office Congressman Hamlin mourned: "I just...
...fill the post of the late William A. Oldfield of Arkansas as their "whip" (assistant floor-leader), the House Democrats appointed Representative John C. Box, a five-termer from Texas. The Box fame: immigration matters. A Box bill now pending is to put Western Hemisphere nations on the quota basis, to keep Mexicans out of Texas (see The Cabinet, "Labor Report...
Senator McCormick of Illinois remarked to a friend that he would rather write his Child Labor amendment into the Constitution than be a two-termer in the White House...