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Defeat. After a whole day of debate, which T. P. O'Connor, "Father of the House," characterized as "a miserable tempest in the tiniest little teapot that was ever introduced into political life," a vote was taken for decision on which motion-Conservative motion of censure or Liberal amendment motion- a vote should be taken. By 359 to 198 the House decided to vote on the Liberal suggestion that Parliamentary inquiry be held. The vote on this measure resulted in the defeat of the Labor Ministry by 364 to 198 votes-only twelve Liberals voted with the Laborites...
...flurry passed. Came comment on the Dawes report, plaudits for the League. Then David Hunter Miller, New York lawyer, started another tempest. Mr. Miller's admission ticket to the Institute was compounded of service with the American Peace Commission and experience as counsel for the German Government on the Upper Silesian question before the League...
Rain in bucketfuls, wind in gusts, make a mighty tempest-and such a tempest hurried and scurried last week all over the face of France...
...being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
...this attitude by the A. T. & T. Co., tended to quash several ambitious dreams by minor politicians of coming noisily to the rescue of "the people" against "the monopoly interests." If the A. T. & T. Co. had stated its attitude more clearly at the start, much of the recent tempest in a teapot over the threatened "radio monopoly" might have been avoided...