Word: snellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House last week squared away to receive the Tariff Bill from the Senate. As always, the House leaders-Speaker Longworth, Floor Leader Tilson, Rules Chair-man Snell-tried to set the House to catch the Bill so there would be no unseemly fumbling on the floor. Getting set consisted of passing a special rule for sending the legislation straight off to conference...
There were 768 curlers in the Winnipeg bonspiel; one woman, a Mrs. Snell, got into the men's bonspiel somehow, but indignant curlers said this would never happen again. This time spectacled old Malcolm Cambell, who has been in every spiel since 1889, did not win anything. Richard Waugh, Liquor Commissioner, Life Member of the Manitoba Curling Association watched many matches. Howard Wood's team from the Granite Club won twelve times, was beaten only once, finishing first in the bonspiel and earning the right to represent Manitoba in the world's curling championship...
...York Republicans have been losing campaigns on the power issue. Fortnight ago Congressman Bertrand Hollis Snell, House Rules Committee Chairman and most potent New Yorker in Congress, urged G. O. P. state leaders to modify their position on power, to compromise with the Democrats sufficiently to get the issue out of politics. William H. Hill, Hoover-appointed leader, echoed the Snell entreaty: "If Roosevelt will not accept the Republican offer of a compromise, give him what he wants but by all means get the question out of next year's campaign...