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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took the House 60 minutes to plow through the hoary formalities of getting down to legislative business, the Senate 15. Then, exhausted, they both adjourned, to receive the President's message (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Seventieth Sits | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Laying aside folly, publicity and asininity, a part of Washington was obliged, therefore, to see if there might not be some wisdom in the Britten plan, however unconventional it seemed. Calmly examined, Mr. Britten's cablegram to Premier Baldwin, and the explanatory statement published with it, were found to contain the following points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Britten to Britain | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Premier Baldwin had, a fortnight previously, expressed a desire to see more personal discussion between U. S. and British representatives. (And Viscount Lee of Fareham had suggested a two-man conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Britten to Britain | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...violating ordinances of the Newburyport town council (TIME, Sept 3 et seq.'). Newsmen surrounded him. After "bawling out one of them for a story he had not liked. His Honor joined his friends, the Newburyport fire chief and superintendent of streets, and drove away to get refreshments and see a football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Again, Gillis | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Johnson bill has passed the House. Arizona's two Senators, Ashurst and Hayden, prevented its passing the Senate only by a most heroic filibuster in the closing hours of last session. This session the bill has prime place on the Senate's calendar and Arizonans do not see how they are going to stop it again. A special engineering commission asked for by Congress last spring to make a final survey, has reported that the Swing-Johnson plans are entirely feasible, though perhaps $40,000,000 more expensive than estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Skirmish | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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