Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially influential in rural districts; in one Swiss town where the same man was mayor of the town and President of the Cooperative Society it was said that he considered the latter position by far the more important. This is an indication of the trend away from political coercive rule toward voluntary control by the people themselves...
...Present rules of the Senate provide that debate may be limited by a two-thirds vote. When there is real difference of opinion on a subject, it is usually impossible to get two-thirds to vote for limitations; hence this rule is rarely applied...
...that the Senate has completed in peace most of its business, Senator Curtis, Republican floor leader, has suggested that a compromise rule be adopted whereby a majority vote would close debate on appropriation bills. These are usually non-partisan bills. They rarely provoke debate (except occasionally, to delay subsequent bills). For the rest of the session, there is scarcely any unfinished business except appropriation bills...
...There is only one reason why Senator Curtis and others want the new rule. It will, they think, make Vice President Dawes happy. At any rate, it will "save his face...
...himself in his despatches to Congress to balancing the services that we have given the U.S. with an exaggerated exposition of the advantages that the Revolution procures for us. He gives an account by the rule of profits and losses, and he concludes from it that it is we who gain the most. Undoubtedly these constant efforts to disparage us must produce their effect on an assembly which forms its opinion of foreign powers mainly on the reports sent by its Ministers in Europe...