Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politicians nodded affirmatively together; whether they liked it or not, they agreed, there was no need to call in a coroner-it was dead beyond doubt; there was no need to summon an undertaker-it was buried too deeply. If anything was dead, politicians declared, then surely the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution-the Child Labor Amend-ment-was dead, ratified by 4 states, rejected...
...referendum on 2.75% beer will be submitted to the people of the state in November, 1926. The result of the referendum will have no effect on the state laws. It is simply a straw vote officialized. The Lower House of the Legislature also adopted a resolution asking Congress to summon a Constitutional Convention* to repeal the 18th Amendment. The Upper House was expected to concur...
...door of Mr. McCormick's room was taken down. The Senator lay in bed, his hand over his mouth as if to stop the flow of blood which covered the bedclothes. He had died about an hour before, so quickly that he had not had time to summon aid. Thus ended his career-a career that began in a family of distinction and ended at a time when, although he had suffered a temporary political setback, it was still apparently on the crescendo. He came from the family of "Harvester" McCormicks. The three members of the family...
...Governor-General of Canada, was on his way to open the fourth session of Canada's 14th Dominion Parliament. As in the Parliament at Westminster (TIME, Dec. 22), the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod was despatched to summon His Majesty's faithful Com mons to the Senate, there to hear His Majesty's representative, Governor-General Lord Byng, read the message of His Majesty's Canadian Government from His Majesty's Canadian throne. Arriving at the entrance to the Commons, Black Rod found the door closed ; he struck three times with his rod, demanded...
...King Cole, by his memorable request for three fiddlers, demonstrated to posterity that his knowledge of musical symmetry was lamentably deficient. Four is, and has always been, the correct number. The better informed monarchs of today, care they to importune the music of sweet strings, always summon four and frequently, it is said, call for the Flonzaleys by name. There are few finer fiddlers than these quick-fingered gentlemen. Last week they gave a concert in Manhattan...