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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Norris talked seriously of having the Muscle Shoals act declared law despite its "pocketing." His argument hinged upon the nature of the adjournment Congress has taken. If it is a thoroughgoing adjournment in the Constitutional sense of the word, then the bill is dead. But if it could be shown that the adjournment is merely ad interim, between sessions of the Seventieth Congress, then perhaps the President's failure to veto will have allowed the bill to become law. On this point the Constitution simply says...
...Presidency. The vortex of the event was in the Midwestern flatlands. The result would work no immediately perceptible change in the day-to-day life of millions and millions of citizens. The result would be a headline in the newspapers, a shout across-lots, a word by radio, to the vague majority...
Chang Evacuates. Since 1911 the word of War Lord Chang Tso-lin has been and still is law in Manchuria, the vast and fruitful Chinese province which adjoins China proper on the North and is adjacent to Japanese territory...
Gilbert and Sullivan enthusiasts abound, and to them it is needless to address any remarks. It is to the uninitiated that a word may be wise. In this production one gets a glimpse of what can be done with a piece if it is intelligently produced. Mr. Ames has spared on trouble or cost with the cast and the staging. The favorites of last year are back, and again the same spirit of general good humore runs through the show. You feel all the time that the cast is having as good a time as you are--perhaps--better, although...
...test brings up at once the question whether an examination in English literature is likely to be a test of the brain in a proper sense of the word. Memory is a mental function, and it is more or less inevitable that the student with the best memory is going to show the best answers to such a test. The young men, that is to say, did their bust not so much to tell what they thought or to show how they could think as to tell about thinkers and show that they remembered of what thinkers have thought. That...