Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Glenn of Illinois was deeply vexed that the President had not at least whispered to him his intention of appointing Illinois Congressman Thomas Sutler Williams to the Court of Claims...
Returning via Key West from a Caribbean junket two years ago, Chicago's Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson was allowed "free entry" for ponderous baggage, which, on investigation, was found to contain kegged gallons of rum, bottled quarts of strong liquors. A U. S. judge at Key West harkened to the Congressman's plea that the liquor belonged to his brother-in-law Walter Gramm. Congressman Michaelson was exonerated (TIME, May 20). Last week another U. S. judge at Key West accepted Brother-in-law Gramm's plea of guilty, fined him $1,000 and costs...
...last month found in his burned summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will be the sole representative of that party in the House.* The new Congressman is an engaging young man, thoroughly Nordic in appearance, thoroughly accommodating in manner...
...Congressional District adjoining Son Kvale's in Minnesota might offer a spectacular opportunity for the perpetuation of another father & son tradition in U. S. politics. From that district came the late Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh, father of official No. 1 U. S. Hero. The late Congressman Lindbergh left his seat in 1917. Son Lindbergh then lacked ten years of the constitutional age (25) for House membership. Many have been the suggestions that Hero Lindbergh should now attempt to succeed to his father's old seat in Congress. Against these suggestions arise three mighty obstacles: 1) Col. Lindbergh lacks...
...respected his sincerity and admired the man himself. He was more loved and better known by the people of the seventh Minnesota district than any previous representative. Benson, his home town, has a population of less than 2,500, yet more than 5,000 persons attended the funeral of Congressman Kvale. At dawn of the day of his funeral, members of the Benson volunteer fire department washed the newly paved streets of the city and in other ways helped to make the city look its best for the final tribute to its greatest citizen. Paul John Kvale, eldest son, world...