Word: gags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convulsive movements were often marked enough to throw her out of bed. She yawned a great deal and grimaced, holding her mouth pulled up at either side. She would not answer but would draw away from painful stimuli. Convulsive movements of the jaws required the insertion of a gag to protect her tongue and cheeks. She lay for hours with the neck, arms and legs acutely and rigidly flexed...
Work Relief. In the Senate Appropriations Committee the $4,000,000,000 Work Relief bill, rubber-stamped by the House under gag rule, was receiving its first critical appraisal. The Committee fought in miniature the battle that will be refought on the Senate floor: between 1) Conservatives who oppose handing the President $4,000,000,000 to spend as he chooses and would prefer a dole costing only half as much; 2) politicos who want to cut the $4,000,000,000 up into so many slices of pork; 3) Liberals and Progressives, many of whom would like to double...
Last week Democrats had to swallow their own words to change this parliamentary device. The gag rule against which Democratic voices had thundered ever since 1925 was the House regulation that, unless the Rules Committee gave a bill a place upon the calendar, the measure could be brought out for a vote only by petition of a majority (218 members) of the House. In 1931 the Democrats had their day. With a majority in the House for the first time in a dozen years, they changed the rule to allow one-third (145 members) of the House by petition...
Last week the New Deal, looking over its unwieldy majority in Congress, decided it was time to go back to the comfortable security of the old gag rule which required a majority to disrupt. Speaker Byrns had the job of getting the change approved by the Democratic caucus. He might have had difficulty had he not offered a concession: the House leadership would allow a vote on the Bonus early in the session. No more persuasion was needed. The caucus plumped 225 to 60 for Gag Rule. Next day it was put to a vote in the House. The Republicans...
...bill embodying the Plan has not yet been drafted. So great is the rivalry among Congressmen for the privilege of introducing such a measure, says Dr. Townsend, that a movement is under way to have it proposed jointly by all favoring Congressmen. Undismayed by the House's new gag rule (see p. 13), California's Representative John Steven McGroarty, who is also his State's "Poet Laureate," last week roared: "We don't give a hoot how many names it takes [to get the bill out of committee]. We'll get the signatures because...