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...roughnecks ceased their buffeting. This, the third fistibuster in Congress within a week, caused Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts to pass around among his friends a resolution providing that all future bouts be conducted in Statuary Hall "under the paternal eyes of the Fathers of the Republic," with Dry Representative Upshaw, who has failed of re-election to the next Congress, as referee. "I think these bouts are due to Prohibition," said Mr. Gallivan...
...Heard Representative Upshaw eulogize Abraham Lincoln and Prohibition; laughed as he brandished a whiskey bottle (empty) and a Bible. Said he: "Let the President and the Vice President, every member of the Cabinet, and the popular Speaker of the House, all openly and unitedly announce that they will not attend any function-social, fraternal, commercial, or diplomatic- where intoxicants are served. This would give a moral thrill that would electrify the world...
...recent years, Georgia's most conspicuous contribution to the science of government has been Congressman William David Upshaw, humorless Dry-crusader. But Mr. Upshaw has not been re-elected to the next Congress, and Georgia is becoming notable for two new contributions which command more general respect. One is Senator Walter Franklin George. The other is an unprecedented practice having to do with lynching (TIME...
Georgia is often listed as the centre of the flogging and lynching belt; Atlanta is the home of the K.K.K.; many of the state's politicians, from Governor Walker and Representative "Willie" Upshaw down, are Klansmen...
When Representative Gallivan had finished there was little more than time enough for the Drys to say that he had not confined himself to facts. Next day, Representative Upshaw of Georgia produced an answer in Mr. Gallivan's own gallivanting style...