Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--House Speaker Jim Wright, reacting to growing public outrage, said yesterday the House would let a 51 percent congressional pay raise take effect next week but then vote to cut it back to "a decent raise" of 30 percent...
However, the restrictive parliamentary procedure planned by the speaker requires a tough two-thirds vote before the bill could be sent to the Senate. The 51 percent raise would remain in effect unless both chambers agreed to cut it back, and House opponents vowed to roll it back to zero whether Wright wins or loses...
...also quick to lash out as the debate grew fiercer, and, when accused of "sliming" a speaker with his criticism, responded, "I don't know what 'slime,' means--I didn't go to college...
...They are as different as water and fire," says a family friend. Seiji and Yoshiaki are the sons of the late Yasujiro Tsutsumi, a cantankerous millionaire who became speaker of the lower house of the Diet after making a fortune in railroads, hotels and department stores. Nicknamed "Pistol" for his buccaneering business methods, Yasujiro bought out impoverished aristocrats who could not pay inheritance taxes during the late '40s and early '50s, put up hotels on the newly acquired land and cockily called the hotel chain Prince. The 484-room Tokyo Prince, for example, is set on the former cemetery...
...gooey over, a 200-lb. hunk of welded steel that some marketing genius had called a Papa Bear.) This ecological wonder, the braggart would assure other wood burners waiting their turn to boast, would oxidize for 18 hours on a couple of pieces of wet popple. The speaker, newly emigrated to New Hampshire from the burbs of Westchester County, N.Y., was always careful to pronounce poplar "popple" to distinguish himself from flatlanders...