Word: knouts
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...followers and having them on the floor when every important vote is taken. Representative William A. Oldfield, of Arkansas, just entering upon his 16th year in the House, is whip for the Democrats. The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those of the Mellon plan. Later the Garner rates were stricken out (when the Republican insurgents went back to their party), but at the high tide of Democratic...