Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week, as the clerk of the House of Representatives thus started to call the roll of members, a deathlike silence spread through the chambers, enveloped the normally chattering galleries. The House was voting on a motion to recommit the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill to the Labor Committee "for further study and revision." Judging from previous experience, most Congressmen felt that if the bill was sent back to committee, it would probably never reemerge. After five long weeks of fruitless wrangling, Congress was finally taking its first conclusive action on one of the four items which Franklin Roosevelt...
...roll call proceeded, Ayes and Noes seesawed so regularly that when the clerk reached the last name-Zimmerman of Missouri-almost nobody was sure who had won. Last of all the clerk called the Speaker, who is required to vote only in case of a tie. When Alabama's William Bankhead answered loudly "No!", there was a rattle of applause, then silence until the vote was counted. A few moments later, Speaker Bankhead announced the result of one of the sharpest legislative battles since the New Deal began. Said he: "Those voting Aye, 216; No, 198. The bill...
John Nance Garner looked down from his rostrum, his keen eyes seeing everything taking place on the Senate floor. Deliberately blind to half-a-dozen Senators on their feet clamoring to be heard, he put an end to four weeks of haggling, took a final roll call on the Pope-McGill Farm Bill. It was passed 59-to-29. His act was a defiance of the sacred tradition of free speech in the Senate, and an eminently sensible thing to do because 1) the bill was going to be passed anyhow, 2) its form was immaterial...
Last month Herbert Hoover, who has been trying to convince his fellow Republican bigwigs that the best way to keep 17,000,000 Republican voters together in lean times is to supply them with a creed, proposed to the National Committee in Chicago that they call a party conference to formulate a positive program. Fearful of the splits this might disclose, the com mittee voted instead to have its creed drafted by the loo most representative Republicans in the U. S. All that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week...
...bond. He was accused of 1) using the mails to defraud; 2) conducting a lottery. Angry, red-faced Father Cox protested that he had talked with Postmaster General Farley before starting his contest, had been told to go ahead. Cried he: "They'll have to call out the troops first before I fail these good people...