Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prelude to House passage (250-to-92) of a stringent rule by which Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Burns and Rules Chairman Bankhead can: 1) prevent any measure from being brought up which they do not desire; 2) prevent any amendment from being offered to bills before the House; 3) limit debate and force a vote on any measure within 40 minutes. Object: to finish the Administration's legislative program and adjourn by this week or next...
General Johnson, glad to deal with Mike Tighe instead of Earl Forbeck, promised to "go the limit with the steel unions if they'll get down to cases." He asked them to lay the legal groundwork for governmental action...
...Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago wheat exchange, wheat rose almost its 5? limit to $1.07. This meant money only for farmers in Texas and Oklahoma, on the drought's fringe, where harvests were abundant and ten days early...
Snarled Judge Cogg, a member of the prosecutor's political machine: "The attorney for the defense will limit his address to the jury to ten minutes...
...difference between the limit for welterweights (147 Ib.) and the limit for lightweights (135 Ib.) is not large but it is important. Lightweight champions had fought for the welterweight championship three times in the history of U. S. pugilism, when in New York last week a crowd of 65,000 paid $225,000 to see a fourth meeting of the same sort. In Madison...