Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confer on the Tax bill (when it comes back to the House from the Senate), not represent the majority which had just passed the bill? Though it was dinner time, and he loves to dine, Speaker Nicholas Longworth smiled at this delay. "For the time being," said he, "the Chair would say he would regard that question as being more Democratic than parliamentary...
...anything else to prevent convictions for murder in the first degree," Governor Smith pointed out. If properly constituted, a sentencing board could attach rehabilitation measures to the penalties it assigned. Its edicts would range from ordering minor surgical operations, and rest cures, to the insane asylum and the electric chair...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In which a Follies beauty barely escapes the electric chair...
...curtain rises, Dr. Palely is apprehended walking slowly in a circle within a bare, white-washed room. In the center of the circle upon a swivel chair sits a Wistful Youth. In his mouth is firmly embedded a large wooden bath thermometer. After a lapse of about three minutes Dr. Palely speaks...
...President Coolidge," he continued, "in refusing the nomination for a third term has kept one of America's splendid precedents alive. If from out of a voting population as large as this country has, the people can find only one man that is capable of filling the presidential chair, then the country is in a sad state...