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...Senator spoke up to defend NRA, but conservative Democrat Glass and radical Democrat Costigan both chimed in on the critical chorus...
Senate. In the Senate the stampede was started by sly, fleshy Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. A Democrat, son of a great Democrat, but also an American Legion founder, Senator Clark had fought the President tooth & nail on the Economy Bill, which cut veterans' pensions, at the special session. He now prepared to discomfit the President by introducing an amendment to the liquor tax bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line...
Clark was pleased to see that his amendment had diverted from the fold one voting Democrat out of every three, was carried...
...farmers. Sister Mary is constantly in touch with her brother by telephone. Together they joined Vincent Astor in financing Today. Mentioned for Minister to some European capital last week was another Harriman (distant cousin by marriage of Son Averell and Sister Mary)-Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, a Wilson Democrat, whose Sunday night salons have long been a Washington institution and who once trimmed the bristling mustache of the late great Senator Thomas James Walsh...
...farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from $1.10 to $2 per gal. and the House swiftly agreed (see p. 15). The Senate group on ways & means is called the Finance Committee, Mississippi's Pat Harrison, chairman...