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...noon last week President Hoover nipped on his radio in the Lincoln Study and sat down to listen to his renomination in Chicago. By long distance telephone he had bossed the Republican Convention as completely as if he had stood up on the Stadium rostrum and shouted his orders directly at the delegates. His patronage power had defeated a Prohibition plank for Repeal, forced the adoption of one for Revision (see p. 12). At his dictation every event moved according to schedule, the renomination was hardly more than a perfunctory anticlimax...
...excise tax along the lines of Senator Walsh's . . . amendment;" 2) the Connally amendment to raise $70,000,000 by restoring 1922 income tax rates. Straightway the Senate passed the Connally amendment, had scarcely ended its vote when President Hoover unexpectedly appeared at the Speaker's rostrum...
...morning 20 minutes after the market had opened President Richard Whitney mounted his rostrum, rang the electric gong. What trading there was came to a halt. Gravely President Whitney announced that Member McKeon had been suspended from the Exchange for one year. The charges were that on April 28 (a day when prices were falling) Member McKeon "made offers to sell securities for the purpose of upsetting the equilibrium of the market and bringing about a condition of demoralization in which prices would not fairly reflect market values, and thereby was guilty of acts inconsistent with just and equitable principles...
Speaker Garner's tax speech was the first use of his parliamentary privilege to join in House debate. As Speaker (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth descended the rostrum to address the House from the floor five times on such subjects as the Soldier Bonus, a Big Navy and the "Lame Duck" Amendment. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1919-25) spoke five times. During the eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches...
Next day the Governors and their ladies journeyed to Washington to be dined at the White House. Minnesota's gay Farmer-Laborite Olson, who had waved from the Richmond rostrum to an unidentified woman as the band played the national anthem, missed the dinner. Reporters found him at the Powhatan Hotel, caught in "the press of official business...