Word: upshaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georgia Democratic voters renominated Senator Walter Franklin George, able successor to "Tom" Watson, and rejected Congressman William David Upshaw for a fourth congressional term...
...state bodies) of the Anti-Saloon League had collected in 1925. Mr. Wheeler thought it was $150,000 or $200,000-he would get the exact figures. Then Mr. Reed got into the question of which members of Congress had been paid for making prohibition speeches. Mr. Wheeler said Upshaw of Georgia, Cooper of Ohio, Barkley of Kentucky, Lowry of Mississippi, Senator Jones of Washington, Senator Willis of Ohio. Mr. Wheeler was excused then to be called back later. What had already occurred, however, though not sensational, was enough to arouse a storm. The New York Daily News, gumchewers...
...half, the Prince and Princess saw Vice President Dawes and Senator Borah at the Capitol, sat unnoticed in the Senate gallery for five minutes, were escorted to the House gallery by Speaker Longworth. The Representatives rose and cheered. Two speeches were made for the Prince. In the hall Congressman Upshaw slapped his fellow Dry on the back, exclaiming: "Hurrah for Sverege!" The Prince smiled sweetly. Speaker Longworth and the Foreign Affairs Committee had their pictures taken with the Prince. Mr. Upshaw crashed the gate, entered the Committee room and got into the foreground of the picture...
...make a non-partisan tax bill. That fellow with the flowing black locks, who looks so political-he is Tom Connally of Texas. He has a sharp tongue and uses it to tickle Republicans between the floating ribs. The thin little fellow with crutches-sharp face, dandy hair-is Upshaw, of course, the champion of prohibition. The Anti-Saloon League gives him $100 for every Dry speech he makes. See that elderly man, with a sort of hard-shell face? That is Snell, chairman of the Rules Committee. He is a red flag to the radicals. They think...
...Upshaw will surely represent me when I am an American. If only to cast a vote against Representative Celler (if I can) I would became one. He is such a smart Alec! Wasn't it he who didn't hesitate to refer to the Prince of Wales as "chasing but not chaste" ? What a cowardly attack on a man who couldn't (or wouldn't) defend himself...