Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, a continuing body, is ready to begin work almost immediately. The House must first organize (elect a Speaker, House functionaries, etc.). No limit can be placed upon legislation in the Senate, as its committees continue to function, without reconfirmation, from one Congress to the next. But House leaders purpose to restrict legislative action by limiting the number of House committees to be appointed and confirmed to four: Ways & Means (for tariff), Agriculture (for farm relief), Rules (for parliamentary procedure), Accounts (for operating expenses). The House's 42 other committees would be non-existent until the regular December issue...
...open meeting of the Boston Menorah Council, to be held in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock. Dr. Alfred Marcus, a graduate of the Harvard Medical School and a prominent New York physician and teacher, will be the principal speaker. His subject will be "Exciting Moments in the Life of a Scholar...
...born 65 years ago in Bethany, Ill., Senator Jones has never taken a drink (that he knows of), has never smoked tobacco, has seen, he says, only one drunken man in all his life. His range of legislative interest has by no means been confined to prohibition. No smooth speaker, never brilliant, his name is nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment of papers and books, hard...
Five By-Elections. If the attention of the Speaker of the House of Commons is called to the fact that a Right Honorable Member is absent by reason of Death, he will issue a writ for the holding of a by-election to fill the vacant seat. Last week five such by-elections were held, although the five M.P.'s elected will hold their seats for less than two months, namely until May 10, when Parliament will be dissolved for a General Election. Therefore when two more M. P.'s suddenly died, the party chieftains got together, last...
...tell an inquisitive public, New York's American Institute last week conducted another of its popular lectures on scientific topics. Speaker was Edmund Newton Harvey, professor of physiology at Princeton and authority on chemiluminescence for the National Research Council.* After explaining that luminescence in living matter is not phosphorescence and has nothing to do with phosphorus, he had a simple story to tell...