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Word: electone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senate Doings. By combining their strength with the Democrats, the Senate Insurgents were able to : 1) get an extra appropriation of $50,000 for their Slush Fund Committee to continue bedeviling regular Republican Senators-electon their campaign expenditures; 2) recall legislation to modernize three battleships which was later passed a second time over their pacifist protests; 3) order investigation, into the disproportionate prices of flour, bread and sugar. The Insurgents' frank desire for an extra session of Congress lent realism to the threat of Democratic Leader Robinson to force one unless his $25,000,000 Federal food fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Insurgents Resurgent | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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