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...Augustus Thomas is now in his 69th year and has on the stage his 63rd play. More than 40 years ago, when he was a younger fellow, he was one of those smart looking little boys that run about on the floor of the Senate carrying notes to and from the venerable fathers of legislation. He has not forgotten political Washington in the interval nor lost touch with...
...happened that recently when he set out to write his 63rd play, he decided to hark back to his youthful scene and write a play about political life in Washington, the leading character of which is a Senator. Perhaps it was to realize a youthful ambition that he himself decided to go back on the stage to play the part of the Senator...
...just as important political palavers usually go guised as rowdy picnics, important doings were afoot at the 63rd annual convention of the National Education Association, which met, last week, in Indianapolis. Those present, a goodly proportion of the association's 147,000 members,* felt that the doings were "epoch-making." Herding into big Cadle Tabernacle and assembly rooms of the Shortridge High School, the delegates discussed...
...filibuster power is a grave menace which must be removed. Since May 12, 1910, the majority and minority leaders of the two parties have had to arrange on 66 occasions unanimous consent agreements in order to get consideration for important legislation. In the 63rd Congress (1913-15) the Rivers and Harbors bill was debated 32 days; the Panama Canal bill 30 days; the Federal Trade Commission bill 30 days; the Clayton Act 21 days and then for 9 days more, after it came from conference. As a result of this condition, the present rule for a deferred cloture...
...other events of the 63rd annual Harvard-Yale regatta on the Connecticut Thames, Yale was less casual. The Yale freshmen led game Harvard by three and a half lengths in two miles. The Yale Junior Varsity led Harvard by four lengths in two miles. The Yale combination eight led struggling Harvard by three lengths in one mile. And the Yale Varsity led courageous, bitterending Harvard by two lengths in four miles. It was a fifth consecutive Yale year...