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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without severe internal convulsions and frantic scenes upon the floor that the House succeeded in obeying the Constitution by passing the Reapportionment bill. The measure, designed to produce a more equitable representation of the People, for a time was burdened with two amendments which would have excluded 15 million U. S. inhabitants from any representation whatsoever. This peculiar perversion of the bill's intent resulted from sectional prejudices and was accomplished by misinterpreting representation according to population as representation according to citizenship...
After the passage of the two amendments, all that seemed lacking to start another sectional war was someone to fire on Fort Sumter. Cooler Republican heads, notably Speaker Longworth's and Leader Tilson's, moved and carried an adjournment, then sought and found a way to repair the damage injudiciously done. When Congress reassembled, Floor Leader Tilson moved to strike out both the Hoch and the Tinkham amendments, to restore the original provisions of the Census & Reapportionment Bill. By astute parliamentary direction, the Tilson amendment was adopted and the measure passed by a vote...
Seventeen miles out to sea she sailed to inspect White Rock Island, under the lee of Santa Catalina Island.* Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her. Her desire to possess it became fixed...
Government officials told Mrs. Morton there were two ways she could "own" White Rock: 1) Go to it, "enter" it, make a "habitable home" on it, live on it for three years, thus acquire title to it under the homestead...
Last week a band of them, cursing "Scabs" started for the mill. Police intervened, turned them back to camp. Inside, a fight between two strikers brought the police. The strikers' guard opened fire on the law. Chief Aderholt, three policemen and Joseph Harrison, a union organizer, were shot in the fracas...