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During the House debate, the equalization fee plan was momentarily sidetracked. Into the Committee of the whole-which is the compact form the House takes during the reading of major bills-Representative Aswell of Louisiana introduced a bill omitting the equalization fee and asked that it be substituted for the McNary-Haugen measure. The Committee of the whole voted in favor. Hubbub then reigned, because the members could not agree as to precisely what had happened, whether a whole new bill had been substituted or just an amendment. When the whole House met, the McNary-Haugenites settled the matter...
...child. With pathos that comes close to bathos, he allows the hired girl to fly away with her true sweetie; he will marry a rawboned backwoodswoman, because she wants him to; "She don't know what she's getting!" is his sardonic curtain line for this compact, severe, if somewhat unconvincing little play...
...thus exchanged blows making their estrangement absolute. But the question arose, "Who counseled His Holiness to flay Fascismo?" For answer observers looked well upon Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, famed Papal Secretary of State. At him a jumpy Protestant might well point a finger and cry, "Papist!" He is of heavy, compact, menacing build, and his great eyebrows have that peculiar upward and outward tilt with which most sculptors have endowed the Prince of Darkness...
...Army. "I do not think," writes Miss Thompson, "that anyone who has ever seen a Red Army demonstration will ever again treat Communism as a joke. . . . The army is ... well fed, well clothed and well housed ... a compact army of 562,000 . . . absolutely proletarian in its sympathies...
...such a way as to inform Foreign Minister Briand of France-who at about that time was nibbling his pen in Paris over an answer to Secretary Kellogg's last note-that the U. S. will not consider any military alliance to prevent war, but only a peaceful compact, and that the U. S. does not yet understand how any nation's membership in the League of Nations prevents it from forswearing war with any and all nations...