Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a so-so session of Congress. President Coolidge congratulated both houses with a warmth which was surprising in view of the lesions Congress had caused in the Administration's program. Congress had far overshot the Coolidge ideas on farm-relief and flood control; overcut the Mellon idea of tax reduction; left stranded the Wilbur "Big Navy"; appropriated some 500 millions beyond the Budget; retained Muscle Shoals instead of disposing of it as Mr. Coolidge urged...
...measures were introduced and 923 successfully passed by the first session of the Seventieth Congress. The second session convenes on Dec. 3 (the first Monday...
Last week the Cooperative Union Congress-representing the collective-buyer horde-met 4,000 strong in West Hartlepool. Soon the delegates were furiously debating whether to continue in active alliance with the British Labor Party...
Although doubtless vexed by such tidings of Laborite dereliction, the Union Congress finally voted, with a few abstentions, 2,465 to 1,470 in favor of continuing to support the Labor Party...
Large significance attached to this resolution, last week, because among the 5,000,000 collectionists represented by the Union Congress many are young housewives, under 30, and these will soon be enabled to vote for the first time, by the confidently expected passage of the Equal Franchise ("Votes For Flappers") Bill (TIME, June 4, et ante). Collective buying thus looms as an appreciable factor in moulding the new Flapper Electorate...