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...studiously aloof from voting and debates alike. His power is immense. He presides over debates but does not take part in them, wielding procedural authority which garrulous U.S. legislators might consider tyrannical. He can silence members guilty of "irrelevance or tedious repetition," thus preventing filibusters. He can apply the "kangaroo," a device which allows the Speaker to bring a bill to a quick vote by "hopping over" any amendments he considers obstructive. He can use the "guillotine" to shut off debate on a bill in the committee stages...
...Ransom Price? The verdict touched off a roar of protest all over the free world. The State Department blasted the trial as "a kangaroo court staged before the klieg lights of propaganda," a "shabby 'conviction'" based on "fabricated charges." In London, the News Chronicle cried: "To make the legitimate gathering of news a crime as the Czechs have done is as severe an indictment of the Communist regimes as there could...
...Boxing Kangaroo. To keep his palace in the public eye, "King" Selfridge grabbed all the publicity he could (Bleriot's little plane was on display in the store the day after it flew the Channel), advertised as no London merchant had ever advertised before. Selfridge's offered customers "101 unusual services," including expert umbrella rolling, cricket bat oiling, pipe cleaning, wig-making, wart removing. The store's "Great Luncheon Rooms" offered Southern U.S. cooking, such as "Fried Chicken, Maryland Cream Chicken, Corn...
Selfridge also kept himself in the public eye. In the '203 all London society attended his fabulous champagne election parties on the top floor of Selfridge's, danced the Charleston to the music of five bands. When things got dull the guests watched a boxing kangaroo...
...United Electrical Workers Union, decided to teach the committee a little lesson. "I don't think," said Emspak, "a committee like this, or any subcommittee, has a right to go into . . . my beliefs [and] my associations . . ." He went on trumpeting: the committee was a "Kangaroo Court," its members "corrupt," its questions a "beautiful frame to hang people...