Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawes was unwilling to be silent. All summer long while he was away from his official seat, he went speaking in states far and near, from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, telling not Senators but their constituents that the Senate should put an end to filibustering by tightening up its rules...
Postal Rates. The Postal rates adopted by the last Congress when postal salaries were raised, were admittedly temporary. During the summer, committees of Congress have been busy preparing for revising the system of rates...
...that a quorum was present. They proceeded to the election of speaker. There were three candidates: Nicholas Longworth of Ohio (Republican); Ferris J. Garrett of Tennessee (Democrat) ; Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin (Republican Insurgent). At once the insurgents indicated that they had not repented of their ways during the summer. But the regular Republicans also demonstrated that they had a majority. The vote stood Longworth 299, Garrett 173, Cooper 13. Congressman Garrett escorted Speaker Longworth to the chair and exclaimed...
...policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry trees along the Potomac speedway, and provides the camp for summer tourists amid a setting of blooms and municipal gardens...
...only time I ever saw him, was over in Ypres in 1917. He was fighting four British machines at the time in a welter of anti-air- craft fire. ... I never had an encounter with him, but he killed a friend of mine named Captain Robertson in the summer...