Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pinned Distinguished Flying Crosses on four officers,† after General George H. Brett, chief of the Matériel Division, had introduced distinguished guests. Among the latter, the men who must build-their nation's wings up to world war strength in two years eyed particularly a chunky Congressman from Akron, Chairman Dow Harter of the aviation subgroup of the House Military Affairs Committee. For he was trying to help get the expansion program through on time, and to spread its work and profits...
Died. Frank Wheeler Mondell, 78, longtime Republican Congressman from Wyoming, party Floor Leader from 1919 to 1923, chairman of the 1924 Republican Convention; of leukemia, in Washington...
Hearing that Democratic Chairman James Aloysius Farley, GOP Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Liberty Leaguer Jouett Shouse, Stiff-necked Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, Republican Congressman Ham Fish and John and Anna Roosevelt were all sailing for Europe on the same ship, Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked : "That will be a great boatload," observed that if someone didn't get thrown overboard before the ship reached Southampton he would miss a guess. It would not, he predicted, be Jim Farley...
Anyone who has ever studied biology must realize that peace is a purely human concept, and that nature is rather partial to the idea of struggle and competition, and that it is doubtful whether Congressman Ludlow can reverse this state of things by a Constitutional amendment, or that our college students help matters much by refusing to join the R.O.T.C...
...Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Ohio, 85%; voice quality good, delivery fair, mannerisms poor, poise fair. "Notably inept at speech-making," Senator Taft is marked down nevertheless as a "phenomenon of the politico-radio world." Reason: after his series of 13 radio debates with witty Congressman T. V. Smith, a radio veteran, on New Deal policies early this year, a Gallup Poll totted the score thus: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Explanation: "He speaks a homely common sense with a sincerity that makes people listen to him anyway...