Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Highly agitated was His Britannic Majesty's lean and dramatically tall Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, when representatives of what might be called India's "farm bloc"-the Bihar Landholders' Association -met recently, in Calcutta, and adopted a resolution demanding for British India a new Constitution "not in blind imitation of the West...
Most ardent in the fight for honesty was Michigan's McLeod who foresaw that if Congress continued to flaunt the Constitution, it would be necessary to create a new party or "Constitutional Bloc" which would "prevent the waning of the Constitution through improper teaching or lack of teaching," and "purge the supreme law of matter properly only the subject for legislation...
...effort to reapportion the seats in the House of Representatives, as required by the Constitution, in conformity with the present-day population of the U. S. House seats are still held on the basis of the 1910 Census. When the House met this month, it was announced that a bloc of 100 members would, if necessary, filibuster to put through some Reapportionment bill, presumably the long-shelved measure written by Chairman E. Hart Fenn (Connecticut) of the Census Committee to reapportion on the basis of the 1930 census (TIME...
...when taken. Estimates are that California would benefit most, gaining six seats. Next would be Michigan, gaining four seats; then Ohio, 3; New Jersey & Texas, 2; Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma & Washington, 1 seat each. Hitherto the States which are threatened with losing seats have been an organized bloc opposing Reapportionment. Now the would-be-gainers are organizing. Michigan's McLeod arose last week and announced that a bloc of 100 votes had been formed "to take any measure necessary" to pass the Fenn bill promptly. "We hope," he warned, "that it will not be necessary to filibuster...
Lester Jesse Dickinson, Iowa born & bred, white hair, tanned, smiling face, clear of eye and speech, is a graduate and trustee of Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, la.) and is, with Iowa's Haugen, the voice of the Farm Bloc...