Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always jumpy about its constitutional prerogatives, stirred with plans for refusing to accept the Senate's farm bill, for refusing even a conference to reconcile differences between it and the House's measure. The Constitution gives the House sole power to initiate revenue legislation. Many a House leader considered the Senate's Debenture plan a revenue item because it would affect tariff income. The Senate countermoved by planning to insert the Debenture Plan in the Tariff Bill when that comes up from the House...
...Huddle. Republican House leaders?Speaker Longworth, Floor Leader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell?banded together to praise the bill, to consolidate their voting strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
Attack. As Mr. Hawley's chief Democratic opponent, Minority Leader Garner took the House floor all abluster to attack, not so much the new bill as the prospective Republican method of putting it through the House under a "gag rule." This method he called "legislative cowardice." He described Speaker Longworth and Leader Tilson as "yellow, legislatively speaking" for fearing a "handful of Democrats." The "most vicious proposal" he could find related to its valuation system...
...fancy that this is about the spot," said the leader of the dignified gentlemen, stopping in front of one of the Cecil lobby's marble pillars. And to the astonishment of foreign onlookers he seized one of the choir boys by the scruff, hustled him forward and bumped his head vigorously against the pillar. The procession moved on into the dining room, the doors were closed behind them...
Engaged. Glenn Hunter, actor of boy-parts (Merton of the Movies, Young Woodley, Spring is Here); to one Babe Egan, vaudeville violinist, leader of a female orchestra (Hollywood Redheads), daughter of a Mr. & Mrs. Jack Egan of Portland, Ore. Immediately following the announcement, Miss Egan sailed for Europe, Actor Hunter remained in Manhattan...