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Word: bring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road to "the centralized, authoritarian State" but in the House it never even had a chance to be denounced. House procedure empowers the Rules Committee to determine the order in which bills shall be considered, apportion time limits for general debate. Thus, by not giving a "rule" to bring a bill to the floor, the committee can effectively block action on any piece of legislation which its members do not favor. Since the Rules Committee is elected by the House and since the House contains an overwhelming Democratic majority, the present committee could usually be depended upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Wages & Hours | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Governor Lehman two letters. In one he resigned the office he would have held for only 28 days more. In the other he explained why. Most compelling of Mr. Marinelli's reasons was that he wanted to spare "suffering and humiliation'' that a public hearing might bring to his more infamous lieutenants' widows, wives and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Humiliation | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...healthy C.I . 0. affiliate which this summer signed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. to its first closed shop contract. Unionist Quill, who wears a shamrock stickpin and estimates that 80% of his transport workers are fellow Irishmen, jokes: "It took the labor movement of America to bring the Irish people together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: P. R. Post-Mortem | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

There were urgent reasons touching the Belgian Congo sufficient to bring His Majesty to England (see p. 19). Both the King and Prince Charles studied at Eton, have many English friends. Traditional practice in impending royal engagements is for all concerned to issue lying official denials right up to the last moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fairy Tales? | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...forgive us! Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Help us, we beseech Thee, to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance that we may be redeemed from the joul clutches of this national evil, and may order all our ways in the fear and love of God. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: How Dare We? | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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