Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ago the State Department was requested by President Diaz of Nicaragua to send down an expert to survey Nicaragua's finances. Nicaragua needed more money. U. S. bankers were wary of loaning more money to a country already requiring U. S. Marines to put it in order and thus safeguard present U. S. loans & property. The State Department assigned the survey to Dr. William Wilson Cumberland, who was just through serving as U. S. financial dictator of Haiti. Dr. Cumberland went, saw and reported last March to Secretary Kellogg on the fiscal state of Nicaragua. President Diaz took...
...blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal sanction. It frames the House's policies, decides which measures it wants to pass-and can pass-and in what order they will be taken...
...House management and shine only on the floor where their quips get into the newspapers. Foremost of these is LaGuardia of New York, an irregular Republican, the smartest, most industrious gadfly. He knows parliamentary practice and can tie the House in knots with his motions and points of order. He rarely wins a fight but he always puts on a good show and his clever arguments attract considerable backing...
Loudest of the gadflies is Blanton of Texas. His dearest concern is the government of the District of Columbia to which the House turns its attention on alternate Mondays. Mr. Blanton demands roll and quorum calls, makes booming points of order, inveighs lengthily on small grievances. He serves the purpose of keeping something from being "put over" (his pet phrase) on the House. He is now a lame gadfly, however, having run third to Mayfield and Connolly for the Senate. His departure after March will not be regretted by the general membership...
Clerk. Large on the diagram of House machinery is William Tyler Page, its clerk, 47 of whose 60 years have been spent in House service. In 1881 he became Page-Boy Page. In May he will celebrate his tenth anniversary as mainspring of the-order-of-business and lord high referee (unofficially) of parliamentary perplexities. A crisp-mustached Marylander, collaterally descended from President John Tyler and directly from Signer Carter Braxton of the Declaration of Independence, faithful Clerk Page is certain of his biennial re-elections so long as the House stays Republican...