Word: tilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes from his Mid-West trip (see p. ioj before Secretary of State Stimson hurried in to see him. Soon a presidential message to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot in Salt Lake City started the Finance Committee Chairman at top speed to Washington. Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House floor leader, was asked to the White House for the night. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed was asked to report for breakfast next morning. Virginia's Senator Glass hustled up from his Lynchburg home to answer a Hoover summons. Massachusetts' Representative Treadway had to leave an Amherst alumni...
Speakership. In line of seniority for the speakership?if Republicans organize the House?is Connecticut's tall, lean John Quillin Tilson, now the majority floor leader. But he lacks the Longworth popularity among the rank & file of House Republicans. Behind his smile lies a dogmatic manner, a tart tongue. As floor leader he has often failed to command a following. But because of Mr. Tilson's intense loyalty to White House policies, President Hoover would like to see his elevation. Already last week he had rivals for the Speakership?Rules Chairman Bert Snell, ultra-conservative and hardboiled, supported...
...clerk concluded, Floor Leader Tilson led a splattering of Republican applause. Cries of "Vote! Vote!'' tilled the air. Speaker Longworth repeated the ancient ritual: "The question is. will the House on reconsideration agree to pass the bill, the objections of the President to the contrary not with-standing...
...which, at most, they have a paper-thin majority of two votes. From the meeting 18 Republicans, including five regulars from Kansas, deliberately absented themselves. Despite these defects which left it a House minority, the G. 0. P. renominated Nicholas Longworth of Ohio to be Speaker and John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut to be Majority Leader...
...deny this, though the Administration was emphatically on record against the "dole" principle which is what it said feeding U. S. citizens would amount to. Declared Senator Watson: "You can't rehabilitate farms with dead farmers." Speaker Longworth held the money could be used "for anything." House Leader Tilson kept obstinately repeating: "It's not a dole. Remember, it's not a dole...