Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Began consideration of the Gooding "long and short haul" bill, which would prevent railroads from cutting their transcontinental freight rates to compete with water-borne freight. ¶ Adopted a resolution for an investigation of the Tariff Commission by a special committee of five Senators (see below...
...Prospect. If the House impeaches Judge English, Congress will probably be detained from three to six weeks after its other business is completed. Perhaps Congress may adjourn as expected in May and the President may call a special session of the Senate to try the case. In any event it would keep numbers of Senators in Washington when they would ardently wish to go home to mend their fences before elections next fall. Incidentally it would afford columnists endless material for jokes about "Vienna bred" and "English as he is impeached...
...recognizes that the fate of capitalism as well as the fate of the workers depends on the fate of the nation." Five to One. At the close of this oration the docile senators passed (139 to 27) a bill making strikes and lockouts unlawful in Italy and setting up special "Labor Magistrates" to settle all differences between employers and employes...
...sight and movement, masks over their mouths and noses, moved about. Their every action was smooth, definite, quiet. Instruments-scalpels, hemostats, forceps, needles, saws, chisels, mallet-bandages, medicaments lay in exact, orderly place. There was a contrivance, which the surgeon used later, for pumping air by a special process into the skull cavity to keep the exposed brain from "dying...
...them their subject as a whole and in relation to their courses and the books they have read, argue with them, stimulate them to independent thought in short, provide them with what might be termed intellectual companionship. A tutor's contact with a student extends not only beyond the special field into the general field of learning, but also beyond the intellectual level into the dimension of the human friendly relation. The tutor is closer to the student than any other member of the faculty. It is his business...