Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more the labor chiefs had met, but in spite of rising pressure from the rank & file in both camps they were unable to agree on anything. The two principal points at dispute are: 1) what industries are to be designated by mutual consent for industrial organization along C. I. O. lines, and 2) what is to become of C. I. O. Mr. Lewis wants all C. I. O. unions admitted to A. F. of L., settling the jurisdictional questions after they are in. With nearly 4,000,000 members, C. I. O. would then of course dominate...
...even harder time running his much smaller faction of the House-its 90 Republican minority- than Majority Leader Rayburn has with his unruly Democratic majority had been made apparent on the very first day of the Special Session. To a request for adjournment for three days, which needed unanimous consent to be effective, an obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first week, despite the fact that, with...
...Thanksgiving Day last week. 20 minutes after the House met at noon. Sam Rayburn seized his chance to ask for unanimous consent to adjourn until Monday-which he could not have done the day before since rules permit adjournment for no more than three days in a row. Confident in his formula for attracting attention, Illinois' Church objected again but this time Sam Rayburn was too quick for him. By re-framing his proposal as a formal motion to recess, which requires a vote and cannot be defeated by a single objector, he got the House away to dinner...
Only after completing a scholarly dissertation on classical music did Claude consent to jazz. "I prefer a smooth, neatly arranged style," he said. Hot tunes are good to break the monotony, and they make a sweet tune sound bettre but a steady diet of swing is boring...
...site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, the Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize under Section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Last year Illinois' onetime Attorney General Oscar Carlstrom. the club's 43rd president, desperately got its members' consent to delete the word "Republican" from the charter and open membership to Democrats, chief effect of which was that a number of crusty Republican diehards huffily resigned. Another last-minute expedient was to lease part of the clubhouse to Chicago's Interfraternity Council. But last week Democratic Federal Judge William...