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...Congrés Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne...
Daniel N. Dunlop had been dead a year when the Troisième Conference Mondiale de l'Énergie et Deuxieme Congrès de la Commission Internationale des Grands Barrages was called to order last week. The Third World Power Conference and Second Congress on Large Dams was composed of an official committee from each of the 52 nations represented. But any of the 2,000,000,000 inhabitants of the world wanting to hear and talk about l'énergie-not only electricity, gas and waterpower, but also coal and oil-was entitled, by paying...
...Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister...
...Real purpose of cloture rule is as a means of passing the force bill against the will of the country as shown by late election; Congr. Rec. p. 1873. Because a. This closure rule is not proposed as a standing rule of the Senate, but only "for the remainder of the session;" Congr. Rec. p. 1764. b. Provisions of bill are unprecedented and revolutionary, 1. assuming no fixed time for the consideration of any bill; Congr. Rec. p. 1764, 2. prohibiting amendments to bills; Congr. Rec. p. 1764, 3. doing away with necessity of a quorum, Congr...
...previous successful attempts to limit debate in Senate have been either war measures or limited to appropriation bills; Congr. Rec. p. 1829. a. Before 1806, Congr. Rec. p. 1766. b. From 1806-1862; Congr. Rec. p. 1765. c. Since 1862, Hale's measure in 1862, Hamlin's in 1870, Scott's in 1872, Anthony's in 1873, Morrill's in 1874 and 1876, Allison's in 1884. Congr...