Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amuse himself and guests often Speaker Longworth plays the violin, plays it well. But he would not fiddle at a fire. House Joint Resolution No. 133 gave the Speaker a splendid chance to contrast with the Senate's sloth his own House's prized efficiency. H. J. Res. 133 was the measure providing the 1% income tax reduction called for by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 9). The Ways & Means Committee had given it a favorable report in 30 minutes. For its discussion on the floor the Speaker allowed the House just three hours. To the debate...
...Harrisburg Governor Fisher retorted: ''I was shown a statement by a certain Senator better known for his voice than for his statesmanship. Well, all I say to that Senator who intends to oppose anything the Governor of Pennsylvania does is that he reminds me of an antimire* talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty...
Henry Lewis Stimson, pillar of the New York Bar, was startled one day in 1919 to learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed...
...House surprised itself by passing this resolution: "In the opinion of this House the government should use its utmost efforts to stimulate international action for the study and eventual preparation of a treaty for the comprehensive reduction and limitation of naval, military and air armaments, including war material as well as personnel...
...imperative. France is vastly prosperous. Surplus tax collections have been piling up over estimates month after month. Therefore, argued many a Deputy last week, why not go back to the good old pre-Poincaré system? In those days the budget debate was a tournament of oratory lasting well into March, April or even...