Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1906 has either party had such a whacking big majority in the upper house. The Democrats are likely to retain control of the Senate for four years, possibly six because: 1) their present lead is so top-heavy; 2) they have a marked advantage in the distribution of Senate elections...
...policies are in the hands of the "maiden aunts," according to H. N. Brailsford writing in the current New Republic. The maiden aunt, he says, "can do nothing, create nothing, not can she expand her inherited income; so she hoards and pinches herself" --so also the National government. The upper and middle classes have joined hands and have adopted a policy of complete retrenchment, throwing over-board the more masculine method of expansion. It was largely a class war in which the Labor Party lost out to the coalition of the Tory and Liberal parties. The new policy has brought...
...Roman stonemasons spent the week in "dressing" with colossal fig leaves 70 nude statues of young men, each in an athletic attitude and all some 25 ft. tall. Pope Pius XI was said by Fascist officials to have suggested the fig leaves, since the 70 virile statues adorn the upper rim of a new Roman Stadium which will be used not only by Italian sportsmen but also by Italian sportswomen. To open the stadium on Italy's Armistice Day last week, Il Duce approached with quick strides a monstrous object 55 ft. tall, swathed in bunting and sprouting upward...
...influence would be strongly against proposals of this sort. What will probably happen is that both Von Hindenburg and Von Papen will present to the Reichstag when it meets in December a program of constitutional reform in a conservative direction. This program will probably provide for a conservative upper house to act as a check on the Reichstag acting in much the same way as the United States Senate or the English House of Lords. Other proposals may include raising the voting age from 20 to 25 and measures providing for a greater centralization of government...
...mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young Cambridge man want the savage Dean's spirit exorcised so that they can get on to more personal business, but Jonathan Swift has the upper hand, begins speaking with despairing eloquence about Vanessa, who proposed marriage to him; Stella, whom he loved; Ireland, which he admired; himself, whom he despised. The poetic Swift confessional is interesting, intelligible to none except the eager student. The charlatan medium dismisses her congregation, counts her money, prepares to retire...