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Word: gagged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carr's sorrowful story wrung the hearts of the House committee, but what could be done? The "gag" rule adopted last month prevented any extra appropriation being added to any bill (TIME, Jan. 22). To the rescue went Chairman McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Preparing a special relief bill, he notified newshawks: "You can inform our foreign service people for me that help is coming to them-and very soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Distressed Diplomats | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...Republican Senators in caucus had plumped for the Legion program. More important still, counters of political noses were sure that enough Democratic Senators would vote with the Republicans to pass the Reed measure. Most important of all, the House, which had passed the Independent Offices Bill under a gag rule, was virtually certain to side with the Senate when the measure was returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grand Old Pension Party | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...which did not redefine the constitutional rights of newspapers to say what they please. Could they, for example, be licensed out of business by a government disgruntled with their views? In December General Johnson stopped trying to reassure newspaper publishers that the code was not meant to be a gag by inserting a specific clause to the effect that the government got no censoring rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Administrator Without Code | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...subordinate Treasury officials who for years had given them many a friendly steer through the complexities of fiscal affairs. Largely because these informal and informative contacts had lately resulted in Treasury news and views out of harmony with the President's monetary program Secretary Morgenthau clapped on his gag as a matter of uniform administrative policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Order No. 1 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

Eddie Cantor: Sure, you write the report. And don't forget that a good gag is a good gag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CENSORSHIP CODE | 12/1/1933 | See Source »

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