Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War to ask the President to attend their convention in Atlanta next June; Governors Brewster of Maine, Hardy of Florida, Groesbeck of Michigan, "Twenty-four-votes-for-Underwood" Brandon of Alabama, to lunch and to ask the President to attend the next conference of Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship to Eugene V. Debs (see POLITICAL NOTES); Senators Lenroot...
...several days' debate also passed the resolution by vote of 51 to 26. But certain amendments were made: 1) The committee is to report not only "a lease" but "a lease or leases." 2) The lessee must promise to distribute power on an equitable basis to states neighboring on Alabama, in which Muscle Shoals is situated. 3) The committee must report not by April 1 but by April 26. With these amendments the resolution went to joint conference...
...complete list of Regional Chairmen follows: LeR. R. Jacobs '14, Alabama; L. H. Marvin, A. M. '17, Ph.D. '20, Arizona; R. B. Emmons '06, Los Angeles, California; B. H. Dibblee '99, San Francisco, California; W. S. Fales '90, Colorado; N. H. Batchelder '01, Connecticut; Le Roy Harvey '94, Delaware; Walter Tuckerman '03, District of Columbia; T. H. McKittrick Jr. '11, London; C. D. Morgan '06, Paris; H. G. Dillingham '04, Honolulu ; Barrell Wendell '02, Illinois; P. C. Lewis '17, Indianapolis; D. D. L. McGrew '03, Japan; Harold Hinckley '02, Bangor, Maine; J. C. Hamlen Jr. '09, Portland, Maine...
...filibuster. I've been 18 years in this body and I have never taken part in a filibuster yet. I've spoken three times on this matter and at no great length. From the beginning I have insisted on legitimate debate. In answer to the Senator from Alabama,-I would suggest Feb. 10 as a date to vote. I want to be sure not to cramp anybody." Senator Heflin, a Court supporter, thereupon interrupted and mentioned that, if necessary, measures for cloture (the stopping of debate so as to vote) might be taken. Vice President Dawes...
...Senate has forty rules and 584 pages of precedent. All of the rules seem designed for the individual Senator. For "none of the Senators is negligible because each one of them has the power to obstruct". It was the elderly but long-winded Senator Morgan of Alabama, Mr. Lowry tells, who, interrupted by the arrival of a courier from the President to the Senate, was at a loss to remember his subject. "Was I addressing myself o the Pure Food Bill or the Statehood Bill", he asked the presiding officer. "The Senator from Alabama was addressing himself to the Porto...