Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President-Elect Hoover was involved last week in the time-limit phase of the cruiser question. Chairman Fred Britten (Ill.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee, biggest of the big-navy group, issued a statement, presumably with intent to influence the Senate's action on the time-limit provision...
Passed by the Senate, the bill was returned to the House in altered form. A conference was necessary to iron out differences. What should the House instruct its three conferees to do? First, a Democratic Dry group sought to bind the conferees to support the Senate's amendment in advance, an irregular parliamentary procedure. An impassioned snarl resulted, broken only when, after 45 minutes of fierce debate, the Republican majority forced adjournment and turned the issue over to the Rules Committee...
...active head of the dry organization; next are the bitter wets, willing to do anything to make prohibition a farce; third are the politicians who are seeking to rehabilitate themselves with their constituencies by voting dry after supporting a wet Presidential candidate; and finally there is a group willing to do anything to embarrass the incoming administration...
...Paul's Catholic Club, although its president is an ex-officio member of the Brooks House Cabinet, has long been in fact independent of the latter group, having its own meeting house, support, and officers. The organization is steadily growing and has reached a point where it no longer needs Phillips Brooks House assistance, and it is in line with the present reorganization of that body to break off a purely nominal relationship...
...Phillips Brooks House, however, will continue its policy of granting freely the use of its rooms, financial aid, and advice to any student religious group which may desire such assistance. But membership in the Cabinet will be restricted to the actual leaders of Brooks House activities...