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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joke." Stocky, ruddy James V. McClintic, Oklahoma Democrat, arose vexatiously soon after the reading-of-the-journal one day. "Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House," said he, "some one has introduced a bill, and has signed my name to it, which, if enacted into law, would allow the Secretary of the Navy to buy for every officer of the Navy, a Cadillac, a Packard, or a Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy...
...Hearst v. The Senate. Had William Randolph Hearst, bold son of a onetime Senator,* tried to make the U. S. Senate his debtor, his newsboy or his strong-arm man? The special committee under Senator Reed of Pennsylvania (TIME, Dec. 19) continued finding out. First of all it examined Publisher Hearst to learn how, when & where he had obtained pseudo-official Mexican documents indicating that $1,215,000 was to have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan...
...proud of having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator Heflin lent his bovine eloquence, carrying on the Wall-Street-v.-Peepul theory until he had demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. The latter and a "crooked" subordinate had aided & abetted the cotton and grain "gambling gang" (brokers), roared Mr. Heflin. Let such rascals resign or be run out of Washington...
...results of the election were as follows: FOR PRESIDENT W. R. Harper 728 G. L. Lewis 871 W. T. Wetmore 897 FOR VICE-PRESIDENT J. E. Barrett 572 John Noble 676 FOR SECRETARY J. V. N. Hitch 684 Bernard Barnes 843 W. P. Lage...
...following men were retained on the squad and are to report at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall today with five minute speeches on the subject of the debate: M. V. Anastos '30, Mathew Brody '31, M. N. Copeland '29, R. F. Courtney '29, F. W. Lorenzen '28, Brooks Otis '29, A. L. Raffa ocC., Saul Rosenzweig '29, D. E. Scoll '28, J. N. Stensland '28, and J. L. Shea...