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...they have in the next Congress to enforce their will. Hence last week Republican Insurgency raised its head again in the form of a demand to liberalize the House rules as the price of party support. Well aware that the 12 or 15 disgruntled votes from the Northwest could wipe out their control, Messrs. Longworth, Tilson & Snell were ready to compromise. What the Insurgents were ready to fight for included: 1) elimination of the "gag" rule which cuts off debate and bars floor amendments on controversial legislation; 2) power to "discharge" a committee and bring a bill to the House...
...Moonlight seem anything like plausible. The supporting characters generally seem as puzzled as the audience about the proper attitude to be taken toward the portent they are witnessing. But the play again proves the dramatic theorem that if you want to make any audience blow its nose and wipe its eyes, have the principals sing the same songs and say the same lines in the last act as they have previously sung and said in their youth-way back in Act I. Nine Till Six is dubiously distinguished by the fact that it has an all-female cast. The scene...
...Bennett of Chicago : "This is the greatest hedging market in the world and we gladly receive orders from Canada, Russia or any other country. So-called farm relief is hopelessly ineffective and it looks like somebody is looking for an alibi. Of course we must have something to wipe our feet on and Russia makes a good doormat...
Professor Tsankoff mortally hates and fears secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman...
...three o'clock," cabled a precise correspondent, "the President was seen surreptitiously to wipe a tear from...