Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huddle. Republican House leaders?Speaker Longworth, Floor Leader Tilson, Rules Chairman Snell?banded together to praise the bill, to consolidate their voting strength sufficiently to run the legislation through to passage under a special rule barring amendments from the floor. But the discontented Republican element in the House was too large to execute this scheme at once. The leaders had to let the disgruntleds "talk themselves out" first in a shut-door party huddle...
Attack. As Mr. Hawley's chief Democratic opponent, Minority Leader Garner took the House floor all abluster to attack, not so much the new bill as the prospective Republican method of putting it through the House under a "gag rule." This method he called "legislative cowardice." He described Speaker Longworth and Leader Tilson as "yellow, legislatively speaking" for fearing a "handful of Democrats." The "most vicious proposal" he could find related to its valuation system...
...same time that the University meets Williams, the Crimson and Blue yearlings will clash in a counter attraction. On the basis of preliminary records, Harvard should rule as a slight favorite...
According to a report of the Committee on the Choice of Electives released yesterday, Economics continues to be the favorite field of concentration for the Freshmen, with English coming second, and History third. As a rule, there seems to be a tendency for Freshmen to concentrate in fields which prepare directly for a graduate school or for earning a livelihood...
Aside from a gradual increase in Freshmen concentrating in Geology, numbering 17, and in Mathematics with 34 men and an advance to 53 men taking History and Literature there are no unusual changes. Anthropology claims only three students, which is a great decrease from two years ago when the rule was made restricting concentration in this department to men in or above the fourth group of the rank list...