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One item in the Senate bill which President Hoover did not recommend: $60,000 more for upkeep of the Senate Office Building. Prime pleader for that sum was New Hampshire's Senator George Higgins Moses who. as chairman of the Rules Committee, is the building's chief custodian...
Moses item. Said he: "I don't remember seeing any cockroaches." To the support of his colleague came New Hampshire's Senator Henry Wilder Keyes (pronounced Kize). Said he: "The cockroaches were eating all the bindings off my books."
Strangely enough the last three queens of England have all known comparative poverty in girlhood. Everyone remembers that Alexandra was the daughter of a petty prince who by a fluke became King of Denmark, and that she used to scrimp and help her sister make dresses before the latter became...
*Nebraska's Senator Norris in Washington last week: "I remember when the Senator [Watson] was 'whip' in the House. I bear on my body the marks of the senator's 'whip' even to this day." (Laughter.)
Such was the situation last week when Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House Majority Leader, went to see President Hoover. He complained of the Senate's tariff dalliance, declared: "I deplore the situation that has developed. I can't remember any time as bad as this."