Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legacy. Nobody denies George Norris his full credit for winning a unicameral Legislature to his State, but he did not invent the idea. Three of the original 13 States-Pennsylvania, Vermont, Georgia -in their first constitutions adopted during the Revolution, created one-house Legislatures. Each was coupled with a council or board of censors which acted more or less as a separate house and generally complicated politics. Georgia kept the arrangement for 12 years, Pennsylvania for 14, Vermont until 1836. But the example of the British Parliament and later the U. S. Constitution, with two houses, one more or less...
...until just before the World War did the unicameral idea get under way. Between 1913 and 1917 the Governors of Arizona, California, Kansas, Minnesota, Washington and South Dakota all recommended it. Constitutional conventions in Ohio and New York toyed with it. The people voted it down in Oregon, Oklahoma, Arizona. In Nebraska a joint legislative committee recommended it in 1915, nothing was done...
...left in the hand of the college of which the young men are members. The adviser system, in spite of attempts to improve it, is still a ghastly failure. With this in view, Phillips Brooks House is nurturing in the collective mind of its undergraduate and graduate boards an idea which it is to be hoped will soon become a reality...
...loose leaf notebook has been placed in the Janitor's office in each House for the registration of guests. The separate pages will not be left there but will be filed elsewhere since it is considered not a good idea to have people poring over the record of receptions of women by individual students...
...parade of politicians led by New York's Governor Lehman and New Jersey's Governor Hoffman. The lower court judges and retired magistrates who served received $250 each, "for charity." An endless stream of stammering unfortunates appeared to feed its microphones. Not too sure they liked the idea, but reluctant to cross a good client, National Broadcasting Co.'s officials convinced themselves the program was "a good thing," had it broadcast from a private studio where no visitors were allowed...