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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the tension in the Senate last week as that body approached a vote on the export debenture feature of its farm relief bill. Informal polls showed an almost even balance of sentiment for and against the proposal to allow, to farm surplus exporters, bounties equal to one-half the tariff rates on their commodities. There were 47 Senators opposed to debentures, 46 Senators in favor, one Senator undecided, one Senator sick and not yet sworn in. With the outcome so uncertain, Vice President Charles Curtis braced him self for the emergency of having to vote to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Even Steven | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone who has been Lord Mayor of London is more apt to be a solid, respected man of affairs than a blathering Big Bill or wisecracking Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Class v. Mass | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

With two such stars as Ada May and Clariborue Foster on a bill, Seniors recovering from divisional, and underclassmen wearied with the reading period, could do no better than drop into the Keith Memorial tonight or tomorrow to see for themselves that stage and musical comedy stars who go on the vaudeville circuit are far from passe...

Author: By D. M. K., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

...usual equilibrist act as the bill's opener is excellent, the "death-defying, daredevil climax" really giving us a thrill. Haye and Sayre, the two man dance team are very good as long as they are dancing, but unfortunately they attempt to sing too often...

Author: By D. M. K., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

...Debated a farm relief bill containing the export debenture plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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