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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House in passing it had discharged the joint conference committee, ?in short there was no committee to which the bill could be recommitted. Vice President Dawes ruled the point well taken. Mr. Neely appealed to the Senate from the Chair's decision, but the Vice President was upheld 62 to 8. Soon came the final vote, 61 to 10 for passage. Five Progressive Republicans, four Democrats and the Farmer-Labor Party (Mr. Shipstead) were alone in opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: The Bill Is Signed | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...affirmative win be upheld by W. C. Poletti IL and K. J. White '27, while W. S. Stone '26 and C.T. Lane '26 will take the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCUSS FASCISTI AT UNION TONIGHT | 3/3/1926 | See Source »

...University negative debating team successfully upheld the 18th amendment against the University of Pennsylvania speakers in Paine Hall of the Music Building last Saturday night, when it received the unanimous vote of the three judges and a 35 to 11 poll from the members of the audience. D. W. Chapman '27, President of the Debating Council, and F. W. Lorenzen '28 were the members of the victorious Crimson squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROHIBITION DEFENDED BY WINNING CRIMSON DEBATERS | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Coming out of Committee of the Whole, the Senate voted a second time on several important points. Abolition of the tax on admissions was sustained 40 to 27. The repeal of the estate taxes was upheld^ 40 to 23. The final vote was 58 to 9 in favor of the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: To Conference | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

College athletics were both upheld and condemned successfully by the University affirmative and negative debating squads, which defeated the Brown and Wesleyan speakers respectively in the first triangular meeting of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League held on Saturday night. The negative team which met the Wesleyan debaters in Paine Hall of the Music Building, and the affirmative squad which faced Brown at Providence, both received a 2 to 1 vote from the judges after arguing the question, "Resolved: That this House deplores the condition of athletics in eastern colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERSATILE DEBATERS WIN ON BOTH SIDES | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

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