Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caucus is not politically in good odor) was summoned to choose a new Republican Floor Leader to succeed the late Senator Lodge and to nominate men for the Republican vacancies on committees. The Floor Leader is ordinarily Chairman of the caucus. Senator Curtis of Kansas, as assistant leader and whip, called the conference and presided. Senator Warren of Wyoming, by virtue of seniority, was entitled to the leadership. He declined, saying that he did not care for the post, and named Senator Curtis as his heir. Mr. Curtis was elected and empowered to choose a whip to serve under...
Senator Curtis of Kansas, Republican whip, was well liked by the regulars. In his capacity as a sort of assistant floor leader under Lodge he has been popular...
...Senator Curtis were chosen, someone else would have to replace him as Republican whip. The whip's function is to circulate among the members of his party, sound them out in regard to specific measures, discover whether any of them had made embarrassing commitments that would prevent them from lining up with the others on a given bill, ascertain what amendments would make a bill acceptable to individual members of his group and generally try to line up the party vote. It is an important post, and Mr. Curtis has shown himself able in filling...
Just as a surgeon will whip out his scalpel to whittle away proud flesh, so the American Medical Association has whetted the policy of Hygeia, its monthly instrument for the interpretation of modern medicine to the lay public, and begun whittling at an unhealthy protuberance in the publishing field, namely, Physical Culture, a monthly magazine published by one Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, June 4, 1923; July 14, Sept. 22). The November issue of Hygeia carried "the first of a series of articles . . . discussing the manner in which the hope of relief from suffering and disease is exploited by the promoters...
COBRA?The snaky whip of melodiama snapping smartly around the old, old story that Eve is still the temptress...