Word: republicanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other extended the powers of the Park Commission. (Bills went to the House for perfunctory agreement to a few amendments.) ¶ Debated, in connection with appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock to Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, April 5), the question of absolute secrecy at executive sessions of the Senate. Republican Leader Curtis promised prompt committee consideration of a proposal to alter the secrecy rule.* The House? ¶ Impeached, 306 to 62, Federal Judge George W. English (see below). C¶Passed a bill authorizing an increase of $18,555,000 in pensions for Spanish-American war veterans. (Went to the Senate...
Hastily, for the honor of the Republican party, Senator Smoot shot forth: "It is against the rules to print such matter and I will ask that it be expunged from the record...
...Italian attache's pen raced on. It wrote that Senator McKellar of Tennessee (Democrat) called Mussolini "a bandit." It wrote that Senator Reed stigmatized Fascismo as "the Italian Ku Klux Klan." It wrote that Senator Howell of Nebraska (Republican) considers this settlement (totaling $2,407,000,000) "in effect a cancellation of the Italian debt...
Rebuttal. The Republican Senators labored furiously, not so much to prevent defeat of the measure, since that is deemed highly improbable, but to head off the Democrats from getting through a vote referring it back to the reporting committee for expert investigation. This proposal was the more feared because numerous gentlemen in both camps favor a long delay, to carry them past the November elections without the necessity of voting on the settlement, which is loaded with dynamite in some constituencies...
Next day, a highly commendable young man, a polished, a politically-minded young man ferried across to the Island, took charge. His name is Benjamin M. Day, by profession a downtown lawyer, by inclination a onetime president of the Young Men's Republican Club. Said Major Curran: "Ben Day is an honest, able fellow!" Lawyer Day said that, as he had never made a special study of immigration matters, "it would be absurd for me to discuss plans...