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...their part, Governor Smith and Senator Walker have been chiefly concerned as to whether or not Mayor Hylan is mentally incompetent to transact business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father Knickerbocker | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...Senate's original cloture rules were dropped are no longer valid. At its inception, the Senate had rules for cloture. In 1806, these rules were dropped. Then the Senate had only 34 members, represented less than 7,000,000 people, and had comparatively little business to transact-so little that cloture had been invoked only three times in 17 years, and the cloture rules were discarded as unnecessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dawes vs. Moses | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Donn Barber | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...Lloyd's was started by one Edward Lloyd, in the 17th Century, in a London coffee house where merchants and sailors used to assemble to discuss voyages and transact business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lloyds | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...were Prince Henry, Their Majesties' third son (who, rumor has it, is to become Duke of Edinburgh on the King's next birthday), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor (Lord Cave), the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin). They, or any two of them, were empowered to transact all the business usually transacted by the King, except the granting of titles or the dissolving of Parliament. And, "all and singular, archbishops, dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, bishops, barons, baronets, knights, citizens, burgesses and all our officers, ministers and subjects," were enjoined to "help and counsel" these four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Council of State | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

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