Word: apportionment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The inter-House group, composed of the seven House Committee chairmen, was inaugurated last fall to apportion dates for the House dances, and to prevent conflicts. The success of the Committee in this direction has been very mild. Four possible conflicts, it is true, have been averted on the Committee...
The Wages & Hours Bill has had hard sledding. Introduced in both Houses in the thick of the Court fight last spring, it got through the Senate in July. In the Senate, the bill found stern opposition from Republicans like Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, who considered it a step on...
Austria's 37-year-old Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, direct descendant of one of the twelve original families of the Holy Roman Empire of antiquity, and today Dictator Mussolini's smooth-cheeked stooge in Austria, has his political ups & downs. One of his "downs" was...
So far as likelihood of passage was concerned his bill deserved no more attention than hundreds of other foredoomed measures introduced by new Congressmen. But the measure made such good sense that Washington gossip, at least, could not ignore its points: It would apportion low-cost housing on an equitable...
Five years ago the Federal judges of the southern district of New York, anxious to stop greedy Manhattan lawyers from bleeding bankrupt firms, decided to make Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. receiver in all bankruptcy cases. So well did the trust company handle this new business that it won...