Word: behind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate. Farm lobbyists were once more in full, though discordant, cry. The American Farm Bureau Federation had backed the administration (House) bill. The National Grange had favored the debenture (Senate) plan. Careful not to blame Congress too early in the session and talking over its head to the lobbyists behind the legislators, President Hoover had "deplored" the dissension among the farmers themselves, urged them to compromise their differences. Senator McNary was blown around to President Hoover's view, but his committee voted eight to six to ignore the President's objections and argue out debentures in full senate...
Congressman John Nance Garner, new minority leader of the House, last week discovered a leak, let out a warning shout. His face red with apprehension, he pointed an accusing finger at the locked double doors of the House Ways & Means Committee behind which Republican committee members were secretly writing a new tariff bill. Mr. Garner charged that through the doors had seeped many a fact by which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were...
Philadelphia, Pa., April 26--Coming from behind with a sustained burst of speed, Captain J. L. Reid '29 carried his distance medley relay quartet to a second place in one of the most sensational races of the first day of the Penn Relay Carnival which started here today. Warm weather and a fast track aided the Crimson leader in covering the final mile leg in the extraordinarily fast time of 4 minutes, 21 seconds...
...solitude. And insult is added to injury by the honeyed information that on the Thursday before the Yale game the team will run through signals before the public eye. It is but a hollow victory when one's champion upon the field of battle loses all human interest behind a mask of secret practice...
With a record of four victories and no defeats behind it after one of its most successful Southern trips in years, the University tennis team opens its season at home this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock when it opposes the New York University racquetmen at Jarvis Field...