Word: rep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present as such. Most of the stags were potent Congressmen and Senators of both parties, including Senatorial floor leaders Robinson (Dem.) and Watson (Rep.). Sound meat for conversation was a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Stags Hoover and MacDonald, momentously summing the results of their conversations...
...homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment of the House of Rep- resentatives; 3) Development of inland waterways as a part of the Hoover farm relief program...
...Congress twice considered the matter of "pocket vetoes." The 40th Congress had adjourned from March 30 to July 3, 1867. On July 8 a question was raised as to the status of a bill which the President had declined to sign during this interim. Rep. Eliot of Mass. suggested that it had become a law. But no member rose to share his view, and the House, recognizing that it was not a law, resolved that it be reenrolled and resubmitted. The Senate discussed the question but took no action. Senator Trumbull declared: "If we were not in session...
...buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University of Virginia (Rep.) vs. University of North Carolina (Rep.)-President Coolidge (Rep.) will attend." The Colonel's companion was asking: "See any Democrats, Colonel...
...University polo team will meet Yale in the semi-final round of the intercollegiate championship Class B tournament of the U. S. Indoor Polo Association, at the Squadron A Armory in Brooklyn tonight at 8.30 o'clock. With its victory over the Eased Troop trio, rep-resenting the New Jersey circuit, last Wednesday night, the Crimson team climbed into the semi-finals to face Yale who has defeated Squadron A, representing the New York circuit...