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Word: backdown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate had no constitutional authority to originate such a "revenue-raising" plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: End & Beginning | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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