THE CONGRESS: Boomerang & Blackjack

Boomerang & Blackjack

"Mr. Chairman, may I ask a question?"

All eyes turned to the plump, cherubic-looking young speaker seated at one end of the long green table in the House caucus room.

"Who is the gentleman?" growled Chair-man John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee.

"I," said Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, RFCounsel and prime legislative agent of President Roosevelt, "am the accused."

Brewster's Millions. As Republican Governor of Maine from 1925 to 1929. Ralph Owen Brewster made his political name & fame by a dogged fight against the Insull power interests in...

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