Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vermont's legislature is now bicameral chiefly out of respect for the independence of her little towns. In the lower house each city and town, from Glastenbury with seven inhabitants, to Burlington with 25,000 has one representative...
Last week Washington saw Vol. I, No. 1 of a new newspaper called the Capitol Daily. In clear and careful detail, the tabloid-size sheet told of legislative doings in the upper & lower Houses of Congress. "What the Senate Did Yesterday" and ''What the House Did Yesterday," were boxed heads on Page One. Inside the Capitol Daily, proposed legislation was tabulated, smaller Congressional stories ran under one-column heads...
With an appealing tremble of her lower jaw, Miss Swarthout, smartly dressed, sings several songs. None of them is notable. Whatever merits Champagne Waltz possesses are dependent on the well-seasoned comic abilities of Jack Oakie, cast as Happy Gallagher, manager of the band. Badly befuddled by the ways of Europeans, Gallagher wanders through elaborate settings making remarks like "60 feet away you can't tell them apart and 60 days later you don't care. . . . All women drive you screwy except your mother and she drove your old man screwy." Best musical number: dream sequence of Johann...
...Both he and the town were named for an uncle. One of the ten top U. S. registered Hereford breeders. President Mitchell was chiefly concerned about tariffs and quotas, for particularly painful to cattlemen are Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade pacts, which tend to lower the fences against foreign meat. Cried President Mitchell: "South America is the only fly in the cowman's ointment. Otherwise he is riding high and handsome. This Argentine business is Secretary Hull's idea to promote peace and world markets. He is a high-class gentleman but he is making...
...should find little difficulty in floating through an undefeated season. Last year, Cummin broke the intercollegiate record, but was able to retain his title for only one week. In the next meet, against Princeton, he suffered his only dual defeat of the season but forced his rival to lower the mark he had set up. This son of Nassau is not competing this winter, which should leave things pretty much Cummin's way. Crosby Keller will be his understudy...