Word: majority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover victory in his first major fight with the Congress was not easily won. To get what he wanted?a farm bill without a federal subsidy?he had to sacrifice his tenet that a President should never interfere with Congress, should never dictate to it on legislation. When, earlier in the week, the Senate had ignored his advice and voted to uphold its export debenture plan, the President very definitely interfered, very distinctly dictated...
...refusal of independent oil producers to enter any limitation agreement until a duty is placed upon petroleum imports. They contend that the major oil companies will reduce their domestic production only to increase their imports from Mexico and South America, thus nullifying the effect of any conservation agreement. In this position the independents were joined by Louisiana, to which most U. S. oil imports come. Crude oil imports are now about one-tenth of domestic production...
...winter season was not on the whole as successful in point of major victories as might have been hoped. It was however far form devoid of achievement in Harvard sport. The University polo trio, coming undefeated through a nine game schedule, winning the Class A league championship of Boston and the intercollegiate title for the first time, was a heraled of a new era for polo at the University. The aggregate of winter contests. including Freshman and second7CROSS COUNTRY LEADER WHO WON IN INTERCOLLEGIATES J. L. REID...
Snowden, Philip, wizened, pixielike Chancellor of the Exchequer, Labor's bitter-tongued financial expert (TIME, April 29) who shares with legless Major Jack Benn Brunei Cohen the title of Cripple of the House of Commons...
...University authorities will initiate within the next few days preparations for opening the Freshman dormitories to receive the major part of the 2700 students attending the 1929 Harvard Summer School, it was announced yesterday afternoon by R. P. Chase '00, Director of the Summer School. The summer population this year is rather larger than has been the average for the past few years...