Word: leader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington for the Short Session as a lame duck. When this does happen, it is usually because the Representative has aspired to higher office. Such is the case of the outstanding "lame duck" who will take his seat next week, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor-leader. Representative Garrett tried, unsuccessfully, to slip into the seat of Tennessee's Senator McKellar. Representative Tom Connolly, who will slip into the seat of Senator Mayfield after this session, might be called a three-legged duck...
Mechanism. In theory the House is run by a Speaker, a Majority Leader, a Minority Leader, the Rules Committee, the chairmen of the several committees-and an unofficial body known as the Republican Steering Committee. In actual practice the legislative program is framed and executed by a small group of insiders who constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal...
Tilson of Connecticut, Republican Floor Leader...
...majority is going to do. The majority does not barge ahead ruthlessly without warning to the minority. If possible all legislative arrangements are worked out amicably in advance-so amicably in fact that oldtime partisanship is on the decline in the House. The three outstanding Democrats besides lame-duck Leader Garrett...
With heartfelt sympathy and hearty guttural cheers the Reichstag welcomed back from, a sevenmonths' illness, last week, the nation's acknowledged leader, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "The German Lloyd George...