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...Speakers that the House has had, 39, in heavy ormolu frames, are there now. Of these only three are out of the ordinary: 1) the first Speaker of the House, bewigged, pompous Frederick Muhlenberg, copied by Samuel B. Waugh from an earlier portrait by Joseph Wright; 2) Champ Clark, best-known Speaker, by Boris Gordon; 3) Thomas B. Reed, which happened to be painted by John Singer Sargent. By custom, the family of the Speaker may suggest artists for the portrait but the Library Committee makes the final choice...
...portrait by Hans Schlereth of Washington, D.C. Largest portrait was a slick study by Howard Chandler Christy. Most insistent was Artist Boris Gordon who yowled that the commission be awarded to his picture without further ado largely because he produced the official Speaker's portrait of Champ Clark. Other portraits were by Paul Trebilcock, Students E. Egley and Ruth Van Sant of Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Student Lloyd Embry of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Nicholas Richard Brewer of St. Paul, Edwin B. Child of Dorset...
Naturally Commander James E. Van Zandt of the VFW had as his field generals in the Senate not only the loudest inflationist, Elmer Thomas, but the loudest demagog, Huey Long. Legion Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr. had Post-Commander, now Senator, Bennett Champ Clark as his floor leader. The two forces were opposed to each other because of rivalry, and because the Legionaire-Senator Clark, who is no end proud of his parliamentary astuteness, knew well enough that there were four to six pro-Bonus Senators, willing to vote for the "sound" Vinson Bill who would not vote...
...Roosevelt summoned Senate leaders to the White House, chided them hot-temperedly on the Senate's delay, reiterated his demand for a two-year extension of NRA. But he also declared, surprisingly, that he "could not" veto a ten month extension as proposed by Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter to its grave. The resolution...
...dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been tempted to point out that it was time for the House to live up to its tradition...