Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change in Mr. Heflin. He suggested a number of possibilities which might account for the change: 1) That Mr. Heflin found himself without an issue and did not know where to go oratorically. 2) That perhaps like his fellow Senator Pat Harrison* he had made some money during the recess. 3) That he may have read press comments on his speeches. 4) That he may have felt "a belated sense of futility." 5) That he believes it impossible to compete with Senator Blease for the title of chief Democratic demagog...
Ever since the Christmas recess, readers of the Alumni Bulletin have been treated to countless numbers of heartfelt fulmination's from alumni about the Glee Club's withdrawal from the Intercollegiate Glee Club competition. The current number shows plainly that the alumni have no intention of leaving the subject until everything has been said as many times as possible. Only the one man Harvard Club in Singapore is yet to be heard from; and, since mails from the Orient are notoriously slow, this defect may be remedied at any time...
...bill would produce. None the less, the Deputies passed it and gave Premier Briand a vote of confidence, 258 to 145?i.e., with over 100 abstentions, enough to have overthrown the Premier if even half the abstentees had voted against him. Finally, the Chamber voted itself a much needed recess...
...have the Senate start work at 11:00 a. m. instead of at noon, but that did not hasten matters appreciably. He then said that if action did not rapidly speed up he would bring about 12-hour sessions, from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m., with no recess for supper...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...