Word: coalitioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To achieve that 9% farm protection by increasing farm rates, reducing industrial rates, equalizing protection in the manner promised by President Hoover, was the purpose of the Borah Bloc. With characteristic caution Senator Borah himself kept out of the Progressive-Democratic coalition, which he had inspired, though he gave it...
In its first test of strength-the vote on the Borah resolution-the coalition was beaten, 39 to 38. But 38 represented the virtual rock bottom of the coalition's strength which could be augmented by minor compromises, when the item-by-item voting comes. Senator Borah, in a...
The limited tariff coalition might well have had the support of President Hoover were it not for two miscellaneous items added to their tariff baggage. One was the Debenture Plan which, forced out of the Farm Bill, Senator Norris and his followers were now determined to tack on the Tariff...
First up rose Representative Homer Hoch, Kansas Republican, to propose an amendment by which all aliens would be omitted from the population count on which representation is based. Such a counting of voters rather than of heads has long been a favorite project of Drys and the Ku Klux Klan...
Now that Ramsay MacDonald has accepted the king's invitation to form a cabinet, England will have its first labor government which is not in a minority. Even with only a coalition government the Labor Party showed a few years ago that it was able to do more than sit...