Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...premature adjournment, the House pulled itself together last week in stout resistance against the ukase of the Anti-Saloon League of America and shunted the First Deficiency Appropriation bill, carrying the Senate's $24,000,000 prohibition enforcement amendment, into a basement room at the Capitol. There, behind locked doors, five Senators and three Representatives went to wrestle mightily over the season's major Dry issue, far from the public glare...
What took place last week on the House floor was highly technical. Behind the technicalities was a defeat for the Anti-Saloon League that must have made Wayne B. Wheeler revolve in his Ohio grave. Over the most potent prohibiting force in the U. S., the Republican House machine rolled to the tune of 240 to 141, leaving the League, for the first time since the 18th Amendment, flat and broken by the legislative wayside...
...leaders, though, were behind the $24,000,000. Samuel Edgar Nicholson, associate New York Anti-Saloon League Superintendent, protested the position taken by the national League. To Dr. McBride he wrote: "I hope that the League will find a way to get out of this situation with as little harm as possible and then make sure that we do not get caught in such a jam again...
Recriminations. The House's debate was fanged with many a poisonous word, mostly spewed at the Anti-Saloon League and its attempt to dominate the House by a circular letter from Dr. McBride. Dr. McBride sat in the visitors' gallery, facing the Speaker and behind the festooned clock, through which for years Wayne B. Wheeler used to peek out as his minions did his will on the floor below...
...farmer, supposedly, is the motive power behind the current legislative enterprise to revise the tariff. Had he not made loud complaints and evoked campaign promises of a domestic market wholly protected for his produce, it is doubtful if the House Ways & Means Committee would now be. hearing pleas for duty changes...