Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adjourned sine die...
...Adjourned sine die...
...Chair regards the results of the present legislative session as primarily due to the defective rules of the Senate. . . . This is the only great parliamentary body in the world where such a situation exists. . , . "The hour of 12 o'clock having arrived, the Senate stands in adjournment sine die." Who won the filibuster? Mr. Dawes, the spectator. He was the one whom the laymen cheered. As for the distant cousins-Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania left for a rest in Bermuda with the words: "The Reed investigating committee is dead. There may be strong, healthy men on the committee...
...Finally Germans look with kindling imaginations to their great future in the air. Die Deutsche Luft Hansa, the state-subsidized air trust, flew its 120 planes almost four million miles last year, with some 60,000 passengers. Berlin is already linked by air to London, Paris, Moscow and the Scandinavian capitals. Next summer the German air net will be flung southward, to Madrid, Vienna and (cooperating with the new Italian Aero Lloyd) to Rome. Herr Hermann Mayenberger, operating expert of the Colon Co., Hispano-Zeppelin firm, announces definitely that in the spring of 1928 Zeppelins now building at Friedrichshafen will...
...Orleans, the one city in the U. S. with a sensuous background, puts on the show year after year. As the last whoops of one carnival die out in the warm spring breezes off the Gulf, diligent managers are promoting the program for the ensuing year. They call in artists, discuss costumes and motifs; they plan and plot, calculate. The show must go on! It is a mint. Then there is the tradition which must not be overlooked...