Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused, 300 to 94. Last-minute news from the White House, that President Coolidge insisted on Secretary Mellon's lower tax-cut figure, availed nothing. When the vote on passage was taken, there remained only 24 "Nays" at Chairman Green's command. "And so," as the Congressional Record says at such times, "the bill was passed...
...Rolls-Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy had a harsh critic, he is James V. McClintic. It was voted to correct the record to show that Mr. McClintic was not responsible for some jokester's practical prank. Alone among the legislators to protest that the House should investigate such time-wasting buffoonery, was Thomas Lindsay Blanton, Texas Democrat. No investigation was ordered...
Senator LaFollette got the floor to have read into the record the guileless correspondence between the "progressives" and Republican Curtis. Then, after many another had digressed, retorted, and exclaimed upon a variety of matters, the incident was closed. Two days later the Senate committees were organized the way everyone had planned they should be. The following officers were perfunctorily reelected: Senator Moses of New Hampshire, President pro tem; Edwin P. Thayer, Secretary; David S. Barry, Sergeant-at-Arms...
...Governor Edwin P. Morrow, Mr. Fields' Republican predecessor, did not have time to record all his last-minute pardons in the executive journal. For days after Mr. Fields took office, convicts' relatives poured in bearing Morrow pardons. Some years ago, while Kentucky's Governor and Lieutenant Governor were out of the state for three days, acting Governor Thomas A. Combs issued scores of pardons, including one to a felon who had pleaded guilty...
Luncheons are annual functions which have proved highly successful in the past. They are generally attended by a large number of undergraduates name for the holidays. Because of the unusual interest attached to the luncheon this year, the attendance is expected to be the largest on record...