Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Asking the advice of congressmen shows a desire to strengthen the party in a perfectly legitimate way.- Public Opinion, April...
...Cleveland has kept these pledges-(a) No immediate clean sweep; (b) comparatively few removals; (c) many vacancies are due to expiration of term, resignation and death; (d) new appointments in the main excellent, especially in the diplomatic service; (e) President is not responsible for character of candidates recommended by congressmen and respectable citizens: Nation, vol. 41, 216; vol. 45, 61, 144, 103; Public Opinion, vol. II, 255; Civil Service Record...
Among the new members elected to the Washington Harvard Club at the last meeting were Senator Pasco of Florida, Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, Judges Cooley and Bragg of interstate commerce commission, Professor Henry Mitchell, Second Comptroller Sigourney Butler, and Congressmen Burnett, Cogswell, Rockwell and Lodge of Massachusetts...
...graduating class at Yale last year, the following are their occupations: Law, 45; business, 22; post-graduate course 17; teaching, 16; medicine, 8; theology, 6; traveling, 5; editors, 2; school principals, 1; congressmen, 1; at leisure...
...trust on the part of many of our higher seminaries of learning, there are diverse reasons, more or less radical and cogent, more or less obscure or plain. First of all, this temper is a reaction against the spread eagle and unkempt oratory of frontier and semi-civilized congressmen in the old days whose deliverances in the Capitol were often grotesque and amusing - speech run mad and descending into oblivion in a very whirlwind of sound. Diseased oratory should give place to orators duly taught by our colleges, which exist to teach uses. It is treason to the republic...