Word: trading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majority and minority leaders of the two parties have had to arrange on 66 occasions unanimous consent agreements in order to get consideration for important legislation. In the 63rd Congress (1913-15) the Rivers and Harbors bill was debated 32 days; the Panama Canal bill 30 days; the Federal Trade Commission bill 30 days; the Clayton Act 21 days and then for 9 days more, after it came from conference. As a result of this condition, the present rule for a deferred cloture by a two-thirds vote was adopted (1917. Yet, immediately afterwards, six important appropriation bills were killed...
...politics. Always a serious mortal, with few pleasures, he studies thoroughly the subjects he attempts-and masters them. For example, he is a master of Rivers and Harbors legislation and of public expenditures. Before he speaks, he learns ; and before he went abroad, he mastered the question of international trade in arms. Then he was required to listen to 43 days of debate and expressions of good intentions. At last there was something to sign-an end of bickering...
...created by Lord Lee, a memorandum was sent to Premier Baldwin pointing out that England alone has 4,000 cinema theatres with a weekly audience of 20,000,000, while less than 5% of the films shown are British, the remainder being mainly American. An inquiry into the film trade was demanded, it being charged that many of the present productions were inferior, unpatriotic, psychologically unhealthy. The memorandum was signed by Lords Burnham, Carson, Dawson, Newton, Riddell; Robert Bridges, poet; Thomas Hardy, novelist; J. R. Clynes, Sir Sidney Lee, Gordon Selfridge, department store man; Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife...
...produced a report on smelting and assaying which was a masterpiece of detail; he guided Sweden in its currency policy, dealt with the balance of trade and the liquor laws, ancestored all Scandinavian geologists, arrived at the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of planets long before Kant and LaPlace, was an original chemist, sketched a flying machine...
...pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw material, and other important improvements effected in the process. At first, rayon was known as "artificial silk," but so swiftly has its output increased that its trade name of rayon is now thoroughly established...