Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House. With a good thumping Republican majority Speaker Longworth. Floor Leader Tilson and Rules Chairman Snell have ruled the House since 1925 by brute force rather than by parliamentary skill or legislative ability. No such majority will they have in the next Congress to enforce their will. Hence last week Republican Insurgency raised its head again in the form of a demand to liberalize the House rules as the price of party support. Well aware that the 12 or 15 disgruntled votes from the Northwest could wipe out their control, Messrs. Longworth, Tilson & Snell were ready to compromise. What...
...Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running a city beauty parlor. Both have daughters. One daughter steals the other's sweetheart. Most of the dialog is a wrangle between Misses Dressier...
...Seymour Parker Gilbert was made Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under William Gibbs McAdoo. Later he served under Carter Glass, then under David Franklin Houston. When Secretary Mellon was appointed he promoted Mr. Gilbert, for skill and industry, from a $5,000-a-year Assistant Secretaryship to the $10,000-a-year Under Secretaryship. In 1923 Mr. Gilbert resigned to re-enter law, but a few months later was called upon to succeed Owen D. Young as Reparations Agent General. He is shy, no socialite. In 1924 he was married. He likes...
...game most," writes the Rutgers Targum. In the Yale News appears the following ultimatum: members of the "Big Three must either fall in line with the thoroughly up-to-date type (of football) as played by such teams as Notre Dame; or they must frankly recognize that football skill, glory, strength, and prestige is no longer centralized in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and set about to engage in less elaborate and time-consuming seasons." From friction-plagued Pennsylvania comes the news that the gridiron captain is to be given far more power, the coach less. "Put the game...
Whether or not the argument will be considered sufficiently sound by the supreme court is a question that will have to wait. Regardless of his personal views on prohibition, Judge Clark is to be Highly commended for the skill and sincerity with which he attacks a law that he believes to be constitutionally unsound. Enforcing laws which are evidently ill adapted to cope with an admittedly idealistic purpose, must seem to him, particularly in his official capacity, like trying to fit square pegs into round holes. If his decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, the unwieldy pegs possibly...