Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only three times since adopting the closure rule* in 1917 has the Senate enforced it. The first occasion, in 1919, was to restrict debate on the Treaty of Versailles; the second, in 1926, on the World Court debate; the third, last week, on the McFadden-Pepper branching banting bill debate. This banking bill, the most important since the Federal Reserve Act, was approved by the Senate, 71 to 17, on the day after the adoption of closure; was sent to President Coolidge. Soon he is expected to sign it. The Bill has been pushed around Congress in sundry forms...
...This rule permits a two-thirds majority of those present to set a time limit on debate and force a vote on the pending bill or resolution. The fact that closure has rarely been enforced shows that Senate minorities are unwilling to give up the filibuster...
...suicides among college students than in any other class." Well might he have added that "the inquiring spirit of the youth of today," as he called it, operates quite as violently among young truants, boy-bandits, street sheiks and thrill-hunters as it does among students. Only, as a rule, the violence is directed upon a victim. Last week, for example, one Floyd Hewitt, 16, of Conneaut, Ohio, listened with Mrs. Frederick Brown and her small son Frederick Jr. to jazz music on the Browns's radio, until he "couldn't stand it any longer." Then he made advances...
Issue. The air has been filled, as everyone knows, with clamor for radio regulation. Pending law, Herbert C. Hoover did what he could. The only issue was whether Mr. Hoover and his successors in the Department of Commerce should rule the air, or whether it should be ruled by a commission. The Administration favored Hoover & Successors. Congressman White wrote an appropriate bill and the House passed it. For the Senate, Mr. Dill wrote a bill about a commission, and the Senate passed that. Committees of the upper and lower houses met, worked long, late. That consummate politician, Senator Watson...
...rule of organized baseball dictates that club owners must submit contracts to unsigned players before Feb. 15 in order to retain their services. So last week the New York American League management forwarded a contract to George H. ("Babe") Ruth, basking temporarily in the Klieg-light of Hollywood. Mr. Ruth examined the document, laughed. These club owners will have their jokes. They had sent him a contract which offered a mere $52,000 in return for his 192.7 efforts. Controlling his mirth, Mr. Ruth expressed a desire to be absolutely fair in the matter. He would compromise for a small...