Word: june
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate floor, to water closets, the smell of Negroes, giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever perpetrated." Last fortnight he plumped out brazenly for the "spoils system" of party patronage (TIME, June His votes are highly independent; he never attends a Democratic caucus. Impartial observers rate him thus: No constructive legislator, in a large sense, he nevertheless gets things for South Carolina (jobs, public buildings, waterway developments, a new judicial district). He frequently says what many another Senator thinks but dares not utter...
...Hoover Administration, dedicated to law-enforcement, last week was saved the ignominy of conducting its affairs through the medium of an illegal Congress. Long-wrangled, long-overdue Reapportionment, approved last fortnight (TIME, June 10) by the Senate, was provided for last week by the House when it passed a combined Census & Reapportionment Bill. The House measure duplicated the essentials of the Senate bill in providing that membership of the House shall be retained at 435, and that, after the taking of the census, State representations in the House shall be automatically reapportioned according to 1930 population figures by the executive...
...Loray mill strike should not be confused with another and larger strike of 5,000 workers at the Bemberg and Glantzoff mills in Elizabethton, Tenn., which has been settled (TIME, June...
...bank rediscount rate (5%). A year ago a similar loan was put out by the U. S. at 3⅞% whereas in 1924 the Government was able to procure money in the public market at 2¾%. The highest "war" rate was 6%. This issue of Treasury certificates, dated June 15. was smaller than the actual needs of the U. S. Reason: the House and Senate have lately passed legislation to authorize the Treasury to borrow on non-interest bearing bills sold below...
...London, Conn., June 14. The Crimson oarsmen spent another comparatively quiet day yesterday with the crucial race of the season now less than a week off. With the most strenuous part of the training season behind them the University rowers will devote the next few days largely to polishing off their form and to bringing themselves to the pink of condition physically for their battle with the Blue next Friday...