Word: altered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House for perfunctory agreement to a few amendments.) ¶ Debated, in connection with appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock to Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, April 5), the question of absolute secrecy at executive sessions of the Senate. Republican Leader Curtis promised prompt committee consideration of a proposal to alter the secrecy rule.* The House? ¶ Impeached, 306 to 62, Federal Judge George W. English (see below). C¶Passed a bill authorizing an increase of $18,555,000 in pensions for Spanish-American war veterans. (Went to the Senate...
...behind this incidental obstruction laid to the workmen is a primary cause for discontent for which the mill owners appeal to be responsible. The wielders of industrial influence had it in their power to apply the healing remedies of compromise and concession to alter unsatisfactory working conditions. The present oscillations of disorder are a direct result of failure to make use of this opportunity. IT indeed seems just to charge the greater proportion of the blame to the executives who were in a position to avoid the strike...
James E. Howard presented a list of changes which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch...
...neat and whitely painted Hotel Roosevelt, Manhattan, a group of sufficiently burly individuals lolled in easy chairs. Their adequate necks supported the brains of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee. Though the Football Coaches' Association had recommended publicly that the Rules Committee should not alter the 1925 rules, it altered with a will...
...made the measure of the confidence and support which the University will accord him. That support is already complete. It will not be diminished or increased in proportion to the number of touchdowns his team scores in the Stadium next fall. Needless to say this does not alter the fact that ten thousand men of Harvard, or whatever the number has now become, are hoping that great numbers of them will be scored and that the Harvard goal line will again become as inviolate as it was in the days when Coach Horween was player and Captain two college generations...