Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only a few months ago, at the time Italy decided to throw in her lot with France on the Ruhr problem, Mussolini strongly favored a Continental bloc composed of Italy, France, and subsequently Germany. This was when the great Premier looked upon Great Britain with some disfavor...
Congress, mightily Republican, opened by supporting the party and the party's President. Its climax was a high tariff. Its twilight came in November, when the political lives of many conservative Republicans were lost. Its end was a clattering of blocs-the farmer bloc, the veterans' bloc, the progressive bloc, the mothers' bloc...
...farm bloc in the Senate is credited with the death of the Subsidy...
...ship subsidy is being sidestepped by the Simmons and Norris farm bloc bills brings back that historic scene in "Penrod" when all the boys ran away from beautiful Marjorie Jones, to lavish their attentions on the disingenuous little out-of-town girl, Fanchon Gelbraith. President Harding's attempt to usher his subsidy through Congress has gone for naught. Teacher's pet fares poorly when she is left all alone among the rough boys from the great unruly West...
Senators Lodge and Watson have developed an affection for the farmers, and with their loyal henchmen of the "old guard farm bloc", are now trying to outbid the westerners. But since the only effort to which the progressives can point with pride is an amendment to change the date of inauguration, the Old Guard have not been forced to extend themselves so far. However, once the ship subsidy is shelved in order to make way for the Simmons and Norris bills, they will find it difficult to make clear their reversal of front...