Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible to conduct concealed filibusters, where every speaker speaks directly to the issue, which it is almost impossible to break up by rule. Such a filibuster was conducted in the last session of the 65th Congress in 1918-19 in order to prevent the passage of revenue bills by the Democrats until the new Republican Congress should come into office "No one could have said that the ensuing debate was not legitimate. It transcended no rule of relevancy, and it proceeded to the very eve of adjournment. Then, early in the evening of March third, the filibuster emerged from...
...bill, recently debated in the Lords (TIME, June 22), to prevent cruelty to animals, came up for discussion. Brigadier General Cockerill (Conservative), in defending the flea, indignantly observed that that maxim De minimis non curat Iex meant that "The flea doesn't worry the Home Secretary." Although the flea was not an animal or a reptile, he thought fleas should be included in the bill...
...soon realized the ineffectiveness of non-cooperation. He broke with Gandhi, started a cooperation movement with the object of entering the Councils to prevent them from functioning. Then he began to see the futility of his own tactics, in view of sporadic terrorist activities. He saw that Swaraj could be obtained only through supporting the dyarchical system and the lawful suppression of violence. He asked the Government to cooperate by abrogating its arbitrary powers to arrest and punish agitators. Gandhi joined him last autumn, and non-coöperation came...
House of Lords: ¶The Performing Animals Bill (a bill to prevent cruel abuses in the training of animals) passed the committee stage. Debate constructed from the official report of the committee proceedings...
...eleven years ago, people had thought out the consequences of the World War, it would have been possible to prevent the war,--and it would have been prevented...