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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House, called on the President to say that his committee would probably draft a public buildings bill carrying appropriations of $165,000,000 to be expended over the next six years, $50,000,000 of it for housing Government activities in the Capital...
Last week the Ways and Means Committee of the House drove ahead and practically completed the tax bill which it will offer to the House early in December. The preparation of the bill was almost a record for speed and efficiency. The reason for this unusual procedure was simple; the Democrats on the Committee cooperated in drafting the bill instead of trying to oppose every proposition put forward by the majority. It is one of the few important bills in recent years aside from War measures, which the opposition party, whether Democratic or Republican, has not tried...
Future Developments. Congressman John Q. Tilson of Connecticut last week began to plan for putting this non-partisan bill through the House with Democratic cooperation. Unless the Democrats change front, he believes that the bill can be considered and passed by the House between the 14th and 23rd of December, so that it can go to the Senate immediately after the holiday recess, leaving that body a good two months to pass it and yet make it effective before the March 15 payment of income taxes...
Yesterday a bill of four experimental one-act plays was given at Smith, and Professor Eliot will choose from these the one best acted and with the most finished scenery. The choice lies between Beatrice Major's "Thirty Minutes in a Street", with 20 characters in the cast, at one extreme, and Diona Barnes' "The Dove", with three, at the other. It is expected, however, that because of its gorgeous setting and costumes, Professor, Eliot will bring Dunsany's "Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles" to Boston...
Bori sang in Pelleas and Melisande, which is perhaps the most artistically perfect presentation in the Metropolitan's repertoire; again Jeritza, in Fedora; then the "novelty" of the opening week, a double bill consisting of Cornelius' Der Barbier von Bagdad and Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, this latter with Lucrezia Bori; last of all Ponselle. amid that gorgeous exoticism L' Africaine...