Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until late at night, President Coolidge scanned new measures, signed them, made, them law. As he toiled he waited for word from Capitol Hill where weary Senators carried a filibuster far into its second night. At last, impatient, he sent word to Senator Curtis, Republican floor-leader: It was imperative that the Deficiency Bill be passed before Congress adjourned. From the Senate no word, no more bills came for the Presidential signature. But 165 measures had been signed, many of them of wide importance. Among them were...
...return the compliment, Mr. Longworth called upon Mr. Pou to take the Speaker's chair on the last day while Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democrat floor leader, presented a resolution lauding the Speaker...
Bitter, humorless, antagonizing more than he converted, Charles Ruthenberg split the Socialist party in 1919, became leader of the small Communist wing, while the late Eugene Victor Debs remained leader of the Socialists. Comrade Ruthenberg's ultimate purpose was "revolution without violence"; he advocated strikes "because they are a dress rehearsal for the revolution" which he hoped would free the workers from capitalism...
...died alone, at 44, shadowed by broken hopes, crying, "Let's fight on!" His comrades, echoing his cry, shouted of new vigor, new conquests to Communism. They saw one more hope, one more strong leader gone from a cause which, in the U. S., is, at least for the present, hopeless, leaderless...
...Vicount Haldane, Scottish jurist, statesman, philosopher and educator, onetime (1912-15) Lord High Chancellor: "Nobody takes the work of this House seriously (wagging a finger at the Marquess of Salisbury* Leader of the House of Lords). It is looked upon as a terrible fatality if we must continue debate after it is time for dinner...