Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only three times since adopting the closure rule* in 1917 has the Senate enforced it. The first occasion, in 1919, was to restrict debate on the Treaty of Versailles; the second, in 1926, on the World Court debate; the third, last week, on the McFadden-Pepper branching banting bill debate. This banking bill, the most important since the Federal Reserve Act, was approved by the Senate, 71 to 17, on the day after the adoption of closure; was sent to President Coolidge. Soon he is expected to sign it. The Bill has been pushed around Congress in sundry forms...
...fair profit for the average grower of plantation rubber. To maintain that price the Stevenson Plan became effective in 1919. When rubber falls below 42? growers must curtail production; when it mounts above, they may produce to capacity. The Stevenson Plan prevents loss to growers, but does not restrict their profits. And their profits may mean loss to rubber consumers, who are thus forestalled...
Professor Davison stated yesterday that he would restrict himself to church music and hymns and the part they play in religious worship. As Professor Davison is Organist and Choir Master at Appleton Chapel and has recently returned from study in Europe of Continental choral and musical customs, his talk will be of great interest...
...columns of yesterday's issue appeared the Club Agreement which was drawn up in 1914 to define and restrict the canvassing and election of underclassmen to nearly all of the Harvard undergraduate clubs. The CRIMSON has published the same agreement annually since 1914 and has a rule allowed it to pass without editorial comment. Again this year it would be left unnoticed were it not obviously necessary to point out that the agreement is regarded by a large number of the more prominent clubs as a mere scrap of paper...
...cage, built over 30 years ago, has proved of late to be wholly inadequate. Particularly chagrin was felt because of the size of the building, the cage being much too small to accomodate the baseball squads. The eramped quarters also restrict practice to a large extent...