Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker Longworth's remarks on the Senate and the general merriment in the House at the idea of the Senate doing "business," (TIME, Dec. 16) raises an interesting question.
The House of Representatives undoubtedly gets through its business with commendable speed, although often we come to believe that it is accomplished through log rolling and the docile follow-the-leader voting of men who respect the machine which elected them. In the Senate again, business is undoubtedly oftentimes outrageously...
It would be very interesting to hear from TIME readers on this question: which is better for the country, the speedy legislation of the House, or the delayed, much debated, sometimes contrary actions of the Senate?
The picture of "Mister Speaker" frontispiecing Vol. XIV, No. 25 (Dec. 16, 1929) is not TIMEWORTHY.
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