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Word: sauthoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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When the bill was brought up for amendment last week, the reading clerk rattled through it like a train announcer, skipping paragraphs and whole sections, flipping three or four pages at a time. Primed to offer an amendment, Wisconsin's Progressive Harry Sauthoff discovered that the clerk had passed his section, had to raise a point of no quorum three times and finally threaten to demand a careful reading of the whole bill before Democratic leaders would consent to a re-reading of the section. On the quorum calls the presiding officer, North Carolina's Lindsay Warren, glanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: House Default | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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