Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the House and Senate conferees' compromise on tariff flexibility (TIME, June 2) went for naught when in the Senate Vice President Curtis ruled it out of order. Grounds: the conferees had exceeded their parliamentary authority. Their plan, whereby the Tariff Commission might promulgate rate changes in cases...
Hugo N. Frye of Elmira, N. Y. To a Frye dinner at Ithaca they invited Vice President Charles Curtis, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy, Republican National Committee Chairman Claudius Hart Huston, many another famed Republican. Because they knew their guests' knowledge of local history...
Vice President Curtis: "I read with pleasure your intention to give a dinner honoring the memory of Hugo N. Frye, pioneer Republican of Elmira. . . . I congratulate the Republicans on paying this respect to the memory of Frye and wish you a most successful occasion."
When accounts of the "You-Go-And-Fry" dinner were later read to the Senate by a playful Democrat, Vice President Curtis in his high chair grinned sheepishly, rubbed his hand over his red face. Mrs. Pratt said: "I'll admit the joke was on me." Secretary Davis, fresh...
Declared Vice President Curtis in Washington : "I hope Harry hasn't done anything he has no right to do. I feel he hasn't, because he isn't accustomed to do things of that kind "