Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Letter-Writer O'Brien's, not TIME'S. And it was correct, not "hooey." "Dog-robbers" were called "strikers" often enough to get into Webster's Dictionary under "striker." U. S. Army officers were forbidden to use enlisted men as servants by Act of Congress July...
...Senate last week by a vote of 57 to 26 disposed of two old constitutional questions in such a way that they may never again arise to plague another balky Congress. They were: 1) the 1930 census; 2) reapportionment of the House of Representatives...
Under its terms the House would keep its present size-435 members-and readjustments of representation would be automatically made by the executive branch of the government on the basis of the new census figures, if the Congress failed to act promptly...
Like all other bills, H. R. 2667 begins: "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. . . ." That is about all that the Senate was expected to leave unchanged of the House's tariff handiwork. Senator Smoot prepared to begin hearings on the Senate rewrite on about June 11 behind closed committee doors. A month or more will be spent in this preliminary revision. After that, when the Senate gets the bill, the House will have to swallow its pride of authorship and the real Tariff Fight will...
...August day in California when Herbert Hoover accepted the Republican presidential nomination, he proposed "an organized, searching investigation" of Prohibition. That promise ferried him safely across the campaign to election. Congress thought of his proposal as primarily a Prohibition survey when, last winter, it appropriated $250,000 for the expenses...