Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Dawes went to Philadelphia and made a speech, reiterating that the Senate should have a cloture rule. He declared...
...reducing taxes, that the division of opinion in the Senate as to what items of taxation should be reduced was a narrow one, and the two-thirds vote closing debate could not be obtained; is there any doubt whatever that public sentiment would be solidly behind a majority cloture rule which would enable a majority of the Senate to do its constitutional duty and reduce taxation...
...opponents of the Court had prolonged debate before cloture was imposed (TIME, Feb. 1). Immediately thereafter the opposition realized it was beaten. Their first reaction was anger, and some delaying tactics began to be employed but as calmer judgment got the upper hand these ceased. Under the cloture rule each Senator might speak one hour, so that there might have been 96 hours of debate. Calculating roll calls, allowing six hours to the Senate's day, adding Sundays, action might have been postponed three weeks. Instead it was concluded in about 17 hours?three legislative days...
Friday. It was raining when I woke up. Heard that Jones W. ("Messy") Mesereau (President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association) is fussing because I am writing for French newspapers. He thinks it affects my amateur standing, but I don't think he interprets the player-writer rule correctly. . . Spent the morning writing an article supposed to be an analysis of Suzanne Lenglen's style. What these editors like is a few measured generalities. . . . Rain cleared in the afternoon. Tea at the Casino...
Aside from such occasional, rather "complimentary censure," Signora Sarfatti avowedly sets forth her "Chief" as "a Roman of the ancient mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...