Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...clerk's dry voice ceased and in dryer voice Senator Reed spoke: "Does the Senator know that he has violated every rule of the Senate, and not only that, but it is also a violation of the ordinary rules of courtesy...
...Professor Football League, of which Mr. Bill Edwards, a college graduate, is president, has a rule which forbids any professional league club from signing college students prior to their graduation. Mr. Edwards has realized that the colleges are competition for their athletes during the latters' undergraduate days and has seen fit to make a very, sane and worthy rule forbidding the professional clubs from interfering...
Winter in the Caucasus is severe, almost Arctic. The snow covers the ground to a depth of ten feet or more while for the thermometer to register 25 degrees below zero is not the exception but the rule. Under these conditions the refugees of the Near East can live only if, through the charity of peoples more fortunate than they, they obtain clothing to protect them from the elements...
...long time this Watch and Ward Society, among whose inactive members are some of the more esteemed citizens of the city, has played guardian to the people, established their moral code. And that code, being the expression of the active and more bigoted members, has been both a rule of ignorance and a law of pettiness. When any urban group submits to the ethical dicta of a prejudiced and demi-intelligent minority, that group has lost whatever claim to progressive decency it ever possessed...