Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garrett of Tennessee, the Democratic floor leader. But who was the "gentleman from Connecticut?" As everyone knows, there are no Democratic Congressmen from Connecticut. The gentleman referred to was Representative John Quillin Tilson, duly elected leader of Republican forces on the floor of the House. Next to him sat Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who had just added his emphatic voice to the revolt against President Coolidge. Not since 1917, when Champ Clark fought the draft, had a Speaker of the House taken part in debate from the floor...
...addition to the four original speeches, the affirmative side of the question is allowed a six minute rebuttal. Dorenzen, the first speaker, will give his rebuttal for Harvard...
...time Detroit baseball player, recently gave or sold certain letters to Byron Bancroft Johnson, president of the American League and to Judge Landis, baseball commissioner. Last week the letters were published; scandal flared. It seems, from Leonard's "grudge" testimony and from the letters, that Tyrus Cobb, Tristram Speaker, Joseph Wood and Leonard agreed that Detroit should win the ball game of Sept. 24, 1919, from Cleveland, and that they four would bet on it. Cleveland had second place in the league clinched; Detroit could be allowed to win the game and gain third place without harm to Cleveland...
...Adjourned until Feb. 8, after hearing the King's speech proroguing Parliament read by Viscount Cave, the Lord High Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords. For the first time in history His Majesty's speech referred to "my Ministers from the Dominions" instead of "my Ministers," thus confirming the principle laid down at the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) that the mother country and the Dominions are on a completely equivalent mutual status...
...best policy." Then they went to Baltimore for the first international-interracial college debate on record. In Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, before an audience 95% Negro, they again lost the Prohibition issue, to the serious statistics and idealism of dark-skinned silver-tongues from Lincoln University. Speaker Turner of Lincoln made obeisance to the fame of Oxford, mentioning Poet Tennyson as one of her illustrious graduates. Speaker Franklin of Oxford, replying with thanks, was obliged to disown Lord Tennyson, who went to Cambridge. "And Oxford," he added, "is a seat of learning and wouldn't consider Cambridge...