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Although the 69th Congress does not reconvene for its last and short winter session until Dec. 6, yet Washington is already liberally sprinkled with ambitious lawmakers, framing and log-rolling new bills...
Obviously, few of these problems can be solved in the short winter session of the 69th Congress, called by many a lame duck session. The 70th Congress, with a fresh mandate from the people, is theoretically better qualified to act. But the 70th Congress will not convene until December, 1927, unless President Coolidge calls a special session. He will not do so unless coerced...
...Brookhart was in the Senate from 1922 to 1925. In Iowa young David W. Stewart, Republican, was elected without opposition to finish the term of the late Senator Cummins in the 69th Senate...
Smith Wildman Brookhart of lowa, snorting insurgent whom regular Republicans docilely indorse, is opposed by Claude R. Porter, Democrat, able lawyer. (Young David W. Stewart, Republican, onetime marine, has a clear path to election to the seat in the 69th Congress left vacant by Senator Cummins' death...
...consistently able southern political despots is Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, North Carolina's "machine" boss and senior minority member of the Senate Committee on Finance. Last week he announced that the Democrats would demand a tax cut of $560,000,000 in the autumn final session of the 69th Congress. Said the Senator...