Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the House passed the Senate's farm relief bill. Representative Haugen's name (Iowa) again joined Senator McNary's (Oregon) as the author of what, in principle, was voted down once and shelved once by the 68th Congress, voted down and then passed by the 69th Congress, and finally vetoed last year by President Coolidge. The controversial nub of the scheme is illustrated in the pig-selling problem set up above. The pig men are U. S. farmers-raisers of livestock, grain, cotton, tobacco. The philanthropist is the U. S. President Coolidge has been willing...
Next morning smart folk of London's West End were scandalized to learn that the "man of substance" was indeed "no riff-raff," but instead their acquaintance or friend Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 57, one-time Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George, author of the British convoy system during the World...
Professor Hazard is the holder of three scholastic degrees, author of nine books, formerly professor at the University of Lyons, later Maitre de Conferences at the Sorbonne, and now professor of the history of comparative literatures of Southern Europe and Latin America at the College de France...
...Gallienne and Walter Hampden lead to Boston companies that have won wide and merited fame. In contrast to the frothy fare typical of so much of the stage, they have both chosen substantial material. Isben is no easy author to interpret, but Mr. Hampden has not stinted his labor, and represents Shakespeare with a Hamlet over whom cynical reviewers have grown enthusiastic...
...system of presenting a repertory of plays, not unified in being of one type or by one author, which both these companies employ, has grown immensely in favor during recent years. Perhaps its most conspicuous devotee is the Theatre Guild of New York, with a long record of successful revivals, and presentations of important new plays. But while New York lias sat at a feast of dramatic good things, Boston has had lean fare. The Repertory Theater here is but a shade of what it might have been. Henry Jewett's company struggled valiantly but some spark of public interest...