Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator George William Norris, grey and cadaverous, was on his feet at his Senate desk. The chamber, emptied by an hour-long tariff speech by Senator Broussard of Louisiana, began filling up. In his rear-row seat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut kept shifting his long legs nervously. His well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch...
...Hawley-Smoot bill, he thought, was "a very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff...
Flayed. Silent and alone in his rear-row seat last week sat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut while Democrats on the Senate floor excoriated his employment of Charles L. Eyanson, agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association, as his tariff tutor (TIME, Oct. 7). The lobby-hunting committee brought in a statement of fact, in the Bingham-Eyanson case, without major recommendations. Declared Chairman Caraway of the Lobby Committee: "This transaction was beneath the dignity of the Senate and would tend to shake the confidence of the American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested...
...Olympic in Southampton, England, last week, carpenters went to work on a bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought...
Beginning the series exactly 45 years ago Harvard was supreme for 16 years in a row. The team from Hanover scored nary a point for the first 14 years of that Crimson dynasty. It was not until 1901 that Harvard's goal line was crossed by the Green, when they chalked up 12 points to Harvard...