Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reversed its previous action and defied the President by adding a $450,000 appropriation to the Navy bill to begin immediate construction of three cruisers. Speaker Longworth left his chair to enter the debate. (After the Senate approved a conference report, the bill went to the President...
...next speaker was P. S. Gibbs '27, who gave a short scheme of the negative points, being interrupted by frequent laughter...
...motion will be proposed by Barrett Williams '28 who will be followed by D.S. Gibbs '27. E.C. Dewey '26 will be the third speaker. After the prearranged discussion the question will be thrown open to the floor...
...entire Cabinet to resign if he signs the bill. Certainly, Secretaries Mellon and Jardine would have good reason to resign. But, does the President have any intention of signing this bill? The President, next day, received the official bill duly signed by President of the Senate Dawes and Speaker of the House Longworth; despatched it to various members of his Cabinet for their careful consideration. Later, he read it himself. All the while, messenger boys scurried to the White House with telegrams; mail trucks left many a bag. The office of the President's secretary was a madhouse...
...Order! Order!" cried Conservatives. Said the Speaker, "The Right Honorable Member must desist from language discourteous to the Royal Family...