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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...
...lungs, it would be possible to eliminate one racing difficulty; breathlessness and subsequent fatigue. Then, if one could arrange a little flag so that it would run around the track at a steady speed just a little higher than the average speed of the previous record holder, and instruct the runner to follow the flag exactly, one would eliminate another difficulty, that of pacing at the exact speed best for a certain race...
...Bill provides that after the census of 1930, Congress shall instruct the Department of Commerce to proceed with reapportionment in accordance with the population figures shown by that census. (Bill opponents did most of their talking against the Department of Commerce, arguing that Congress was abrogating a right, a privilege, a duty, in favor of a government department.) Based on a somewhat arithmetical system of "major fractions,"* the Fenn plans provide essentially that the 1930 population will be divided by the number of representatives (435) and the resultant figures taken as the average population of a district. Then the population...
...Party conventions elsewhere during the week strengthened other candidates only sparingly. Oklahoma Republicans urged their 20 delegates to vote first for Curtis, then for Lowden. Nevada Republicans decided not to instruct their nine delegates. Arizona's nine were reported to favor Candidate Lowden, but were not instructed. Alaska Republicans did not instruct their two delegates. The standing of delegates instructed or fairly claimed for all G. O. P. candidates as of last weekend was: Hoover, 359; Lowden, 211; Curtis, 24; Norris, 11; Borah...
This year, in addition to the work of Professor J. J. Haffner and J. B. Conant '13, and H. D. Murphy and H. B. Warren, there has been added a group of oils and water colors by A. L. Ripley, who joined the staff this year to instruct in the life class and in water color sketching...