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Word: nights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quickly to his feet leaped Democratic General Harrison, proposing, as a sort of reprisal, night sessions on the tariff. The Young Turks accepted the challenge, helped to vote three-hour sessions each night, making a ten-and-a-half hour fighting day for the Senate. Never did the tariff war go more briskly. The Young Turks, in the saddle, had a definite program: to keep the Senate in session; to pass the bill by Dec. 1; to keep industrial rates at their present levels. Old Guardsmen fairly panted as farm rates were pegged up so rapidly that even Senate clerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: The Young Turks | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Widows Pension Bill (TIME, Oct. 28) passed after an all-night debate lasting 18 hours which resulted in the altering of exactly one word in the original text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Monday night: The Sea Gull (Anton Tchekov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Tuesday night: The Would-Be Gentleman (Moli?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Wednesday night: Mile. Bourrat (Claude Anet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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