Word: 69th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next to the last day of the last session of the 69th Congress, from 8:30 a. m. until late at night, President Coolidge scanned new measures, signed them, made, them law. As he toiled he waited for word from Capitol Hill where weary Senators carried a filibuster far into its second night. At last, impatient, he sent word to Senator Curtis, Republican floor-leader: It was imperative that the Deficiency Bill be passed before Congress adjourned. From the Senate no word, no more bills came for the Presidential signature. But 165 measures had been signed, many of them...
Radio Control, the long session of the 69th could not agree on "An Act for the regulation of radio communications"; the short session did. Last week with his signature President Coolidge made the White-Dill bill into law. A commission of five will regulate radio for one year; thereafter the Secretary of Commerce will be acting tsar (TIME...
Frank L. Smith. The Senate condensed what might have been a two-week hubbub into a two-day debate by establishing the precedent of keeping a Senator out while investigating his right to be in. Thus, Senator-designate and Senator-elect Smith found the door of the 69th Senate shut in his face and his pathway to the 70th made more difficult...
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, hero or marplot* is conspicuous as the only Senator who, already famed, has increased his fame during the 69th Congress. He, a sizzling meteor among orators, a bastinado of the present trend of U. S. politics, has seized the role of Senator inquisitor, which Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana and the late LaFollette of Wisconsin once held. Everyone knows how Senator Reed revealed several millions in certified slush in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, May 31, et seq.) ; how he dragged the Anti-Saloon League into the investigations and gave it its first important...
...69th Congress was sent to eternal rest and President Coolidge was addressed in a solo parody...