Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under Dr. Wilson the Board's activities are manifold. It maintains a drumfire of publicity in behalf of Prohibition. Its representatives appear before Congressional committees for Dry legislation, against Wet proposals. It classifies Congressmen according to their voting record on Prohibition. It favors or opposes presidential appointees on the basis of "public morals." It agitates Sunday closing laws, book and cinema censorship. It supplies debaters to uphold the Dry side of any Prohibition argument. It compiles Sunday School textbooks, temperance leaflets for Epworth Leagues, pledges Negro school children to total abstinence...
...those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate had no constitutional authority to originate such a "revenue-raising" plan...
...course the United States government has no intention of violating the traditional sanctity of extraterritorial privileges. No rights ordinarily granted to mere congressmen would be denied to the representatives of the powers of the earth. In fact there is little fear of the United States prohibition enforcement unit even among those not native to these shores...
...late Sunday afternoon after a misadventurous outing. Ten minutes later, tired though he was, he began to receive potent U. S. officials whom he had summoned. Came Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary Castle, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Under Secretary Mills (laden with papers), Senators Borah, Watson, Smoot, Congressmen Tilson and Garner...
Ways & Means. In a back-room political conference, the G. O. P. members of the House Ways & Means Committee met the revolt against the Tariff Bill by holding additional secret hearings last week. Before them appeared Congressmen from farm states to state the price (i.e., upward revision on pet commodities) they would demand to support the measure on the House floor. Patiently the committee heard them ask for greater duties on casein, canned tomatoes, potatoes, live cattle, hides, blackstrap, dairy products...