Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire repeal. Farmers'-Friends joined the Michiganders. Democrats swelled this opposition to a 245-to-151 final vote. These changes having been made, Chairman Green of the Ways & Means Committee conferred anxiously with his Republican colleagues at the majority-party floor desk. They asked to have the Revenue Act sent back to the Ways & Means Committee for conference. The House refused, 300 to 94. Last-minute news from the White House, that President Coolidge insisted on Secretary Mellon's lower tax-cut figure, availed nothing. When the vote on passage was taken, there remained only 24 "Nays...
Speaker's Wit. The House was treated to a characteristic bit of its Speaker's wit just after the Revenue Act was passed. Seeing that the Republican tax program had been defeated in the voting, Democrat Garner made "a parliamentary inquiry." Why, he asked, should a majority of the Representatives appointed to confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being...
Governor Fields' last official act observed the tradition by virtue of which so many Kentuckians can call themselves "Colonel." He appointed Thomas P. Middleton, his state commissioner of securities, to be a Colonel on his staff for the few hours remaining. Col. Middleton was thus rewarded for faithful services. A more interesting example of the Colonel custom was the case of John William Stoll Jr. of Lexington, Ky., whose father is a potent banker. John William Stoll Jr. became a Colonel on the staff of onetime (1915-19) Governor Augustus Owsley Stanley at the age of two weeks...
...interdependent with the British Government (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Church is "established." The King nominates its bishops; they sit as peers in the House of Lords. The Government administers the vast funds and properties of the Church. The two have been closely bound since Parliament passed the Uniformity Act...
Episcopalian churches of Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of the British Commonwealth. The hierarchy of those churches is composed of deacons, priests and bishops. The bishops govern. No ecclesiastical authority is above them, except where, as in England there are archbishops. The archbishops, however, act somewhat as do chairmen of corporate boards of directors. They lack inherent power of command. (In the Roman Catholic Church the Government is, of course, that of an absolute monarchy with the bishops subordinate to the Pope.) Thus government among Episcopal churches is only loosely integrated, and the individual congregations conduct services much...