Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, a continuing body, is ready to begin work almost immediately. The House must first organize (elect a Speaker, House functionaries, etc.). No limit can be placed upon legislation in the Senate, as its committees continue to function, without reconfirmation, from one Congress to the next. But House leaders purpose to restrict legislative action by limiting the number of House committees to be appointed and confirmed to four: Ways & Means (for tariff), Agriculture (for farm relief), Rules (for parliamentary procedure), Accounts (for operating expenses). The House's 42 other committees would be non-existent until the regular December issue...
...kicking and kicking off contests yesterday, beating C. O. Newhardt '31 and J. W. Potter '30 in each of these respectively. In the forward pass receiving competition R. S. Ogden '31 proved to be the most adept at snaring the forwards that Coach Casey threw. Nathaniel Warner '30 captain-elect of the University wrestling team, won the center passing contest for accuracy. Newhardt captured honors for linemen by winning the coming out of the line competition...
...bodyguard at Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra ears as well as with vigilant eyes and brawn. When the President-Elect went to South America, Lawrence Richey was left behind to Hear Things...
...trying to keep, not a suit, but a job. He is president of Loft, Inc., candy chain which for more than 50 years has been a Loft property. Now a group of stockholders is attempting to oust the Loft family (Mr. Loft Sr. is cruising in the Mediterranean) and elect as two of the eleven directors Mr. Otis Emerson Dunham, president of Page & Shaw, Inc., and Mr. Edward T. Williams, vice president of Page & Shaw. At a stockholders' meeting last week (reminiscent of the late Rockefeller-Stewart and Childs-Barber controversies) the Page & Shaw interests rounded up an apparent...
...ability is used defensively," was the criticism of American hockey made by Captain-elect F.R.G. Giddens '30 of the Harvard sextet, in an article appearing in a recent issue of the "Yale Daily News...