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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work Done. Last week, the U. S. Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...between six and seven billion dollars, in pensions and gratuities, to service men of the Civil War. For service men of the last War, five billions have been set aside in a decade, he said. "All the countries on earth in all their history, all put together, have not done as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ceremonies | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...State's vote changes materially between one ballot and the next, the distant spectator will discover it, not through any change of expression in that State's delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have shifted will sit quietly, having done nothing but what they were told to do by their Boss. Seen off the floor, however, convention delegates look just like so many everyday citizens assembled to compare calmly, discuss intelligently and express independently their individual opinions as to who should be President of the U. S. Next week, Kansas Citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Work Done. Last week, the U. S. Senators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...amount of work done rather than the kind was evidently what President Coolidge had to admire. Reapportionment of popular representation and disposal of the Boulder Dam bill were the gravest omissions. Disagreement on farm-relief and failure to vote at least some of the Big Navy, after Europe had been made to understand the U. S. really needs more ships, were the gravest embarrassments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sine Die | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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