Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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December 26--Recess...
...This was, of course, a recess appointment. Two other members of the Commission serving under the same sanction are Sherman J. Lowell, Fredonia, N. Y. and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, who do not draw pay because they are unconfirmed by Congress. Mr. Glassie, however, will be salaried because of his appointment when Congress is not in session...
...debts of France to the U. S. and Britain equivocally, but in such terms as to leave no doubt at the time that he would not attempt to secure ratification for either the Mellon-Berenger or Caillaux-Churchill debt pact until the Chamber reassembles from its imminent summer recess.* Finally he demanded and secured, for the first time in French history, the passage of a "five minute rule" against filibustering. "Gagged." During the ensuing debate on a motion of confidence several Communist Deputies attempted to shout past the five minute rule, were dragged from the Tribune by ungentle ushers, shrieked...
...scene of an extraordinary mock session staged for the benefit of 859 U. S. college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into...
...mind of appointments to the U. S. Tariff Commission and the new Railway Mediation Board. For the Commission he found a suitable farmer, Sherman J. Lowell of Fredonia, N. Y., onetime National Grange president; and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, already serving on the Commission under a recess appointment. To the Board he added Carl Williams, Oklahoma Democrat, farmer, stockman, editor. The other railway mediators: Representatives Samuel E. Winslow of Massachusetts; onetime Senator Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; Gloss-brenner W. W. Hanger of Illinois, public member of the old Railway Labor Board; Hywel Davies, mediator for the Department...